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Ai Zhixin was a little excited at the thought of starting tax practice work soon - he had been in Guangzhou for a few months and had some achievements in "cai", but he had no practical achievements in "tax". Make plans. Firstly, the plague caused delays, and secondly, there was a real lack of suitable manpower.
Now the Wang couple have not only come, they have also brought a group of cadres from the short-term tax training class. They are much better than the group of tax cadres he has now who are ignorant, mixed with old and new, and are basically "self-taught". There was a lot of work, and Ai Zhixin really didn't trust them to do it, so he kept putting it off.
After seeing the arrival date and the number of people traveling with him, he called Ai Yixin and asked her to arrange the corresponding offices and dormitories in the salt department Yamen, which is the Finance and Taxation Bureau compound, according to the number of people in the message.
Because there is not much practical work, Mr. Ai has spent more time on "infrastructure construction" in the past few months. Not only did he repair many dilapidated buildings in the original salt department office, renovate a number of old houses, build septic tanks and public toilets, he also installed a modern sewerage system in the small yard where his office and bedroom are. ―He's had enough of the toilet thing.
In the end, he demolished some dilapidated houses to create an open space and used it as a playground. He did exercises with the staff of the Finance and Taxation Bureau every day - leaving the remaining old officials miserable.
Although the Yan Kesi Yamen is large in area and has many houses, many of them are very old. Coupled with the hot and humid environment in Guangzhou, the internal sanitary environment is poor. Many old officials working there have various respiratory and joint diseases. Disease, once the seasons change, a group of people will report illness. Ai Zhixin had only been in office for half a year, and among the old staff he had retained, there were three people who had died or retired from illness. Ai Yuanlao then came up with the idea of "exercising" and started a "fitness movement" in the Finance and Taxation Bureau - this was not only to retain personnel but also to maintain the exercises developed by the naturalized staff transferred from Hainan. habit.
Although the Tax Department Yamen is not "renewed" now, it is at least much better than when he first came here. Otherwise, the Wang family and his wife may not be willing to live in the Yamen.
On the day the Wang family arrived in Guangzhou, Ai Zhixin got up early again - not to greet them, but because today was another routine port inventory inspection. As the director of the Finance and Taxation Bureau, he will go to the Great World to conduct an inventory inventory of the national treasury of Australia and Song Dynasty, that is, the port treasury, and sign and issue relevant transshipment goods. Relevant personnel from the Monopoly Bureau will also accompany him.
The so-called port treasury is actually the treasury of the Senate and the treasury of various Delong banks. Although the policy of using the Central Reserve Bank as the central bank of the Senate has been established, in fact the Central Reserve Bank has just opened and lacks branches. Currently, there are many The central bank's work is still handled by Delong's branches in various places.
The finances of the Senate first served the war. The Ministry of Finance followed the army in setting up supply centers at important transportation areas (mainly ports) around the second or third lines. These supply centers later became the treasury of each place. Since Australia and Song Dynasty used the sea to control the land, they were not afraid of robbery, and transportation basically depended on ships, so the national treasury was basically set up in the port, which was called a port treasury. Of course, this was also due to the fact that it was not convenient to call it a "country" in the early days when the flag of the country had not yet been unveiled. Inside
The earliest origin of the port warehouse was the property robbed during the raid on Goujiazhuang. The precious metals and other precious fines were transported back to Lingao and placed directly in the Fengcheng warehouse in Bobu Port. At that time, the Fengcheng was the safest place, and it was also convenient to sell these properties at the port to Guangzhou and other places in exchange for other supplies urgently needed by the Senate. After the crisis-ridden infancy passed, a special warehouse was built at the port, and the materials in the Fengcheng's warehouse were slowly moved to land.
After the Battle of Chengmai, although Qiongzhou City and Haikou City were not captured, the actual occupation of Qiongshan County was actually completed. Caijinkou established the Qiongzhou City Supply Center there - specifically responsible for collecting and transshipping all parts of Hainan. supplies. The military rations collected through reasonable burdens around the city are directly handed over to the Qiongshan County Supply Center. They are directly counted and registered at the port and shipped to supply the expeditionary force in Guangzhou. This means that the local seizures can be put to use immediately, improving efficiency and ensuring utilization of resources. After the war, these supply centers were quickly transformed into port warehouses. With the expansion of the financial and commercial departments of the Senate, the collection and storage of materials by various departments such as taxation, industry, commerce, monopoly, customs, agriculture, etc. all had to go through these port warehouses. Since Ai Zhixin was responsible for the operation of the port warehouse in Qiongzhou, he was also sent to other places to set up port warehouses. This also established the most basic treasury system in Australia and Song Dynasty. Each port warehouse is equipped with a number of naturalized citizens to handle cashier business. A basic accounting system has been established.
Although the Planning Institute is mainly responsible for the allocation of materials, the specific cashier is still responsible for the financial department's treasury.
Guangzhou's port warehouse is located inside the big world. In the "inner world" near the dock, there are rows of warehouses. In the row of offices outside the warehouses, there are the offices of the port warehouse.
The work of the port library is always busy. Correspondents from various local agencies carrying communication briefcases come in and out, bringing letters about the flow of materials from various places; every hour, the correspondents in the communication center will send the planning institute The latest data changes from Delong's branches in various places are sent here.
On wooden counters one by one, cashiers collect material requisition orders or material storage orders from relevant departments, and instruct relevant warehouses or ships to leave the warehouse or pay related materials, and then register the relevant time, order number, and material name on the rolling A blackboard announcement was made on the blackboard. The transcriber saw the announcement on the blackboard and transcribed the account books. The telegraph operator also reported the important parts of the relevant account books to the Ministry of Finance and Planning Institute in Lingao, who were responsible for the accounting. When some inventory materials are close to the set red line, or a warehouse will be out of stock before the nearest regular transportation period of the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry, or other nearby transportation warehouses will be notified to send ships to replenish the goods.
Ai Zhixin did not go directly to the office of the port warehouse, but went straight to the warehouse area next to the dock in the "other world".
Because today is inventory, there is no business in and out of the warehouse area at this moment. The usually bustling carriages, trolleys, porters... are all missing. The warehouse doors are closed tightly, and there is no one on the dock. The silence here is broken from time to time by the footsteps of patrolling National Army soldiers. In fact, there is a person in each warehouse who is counting the inventory.
Ai Zhixin looked at the watch on his wrist. It was still early before the end. Naturally, he would not go to the warehouse to take inventory in person, but he would be present every time the inventory was taken. Sometimes he would also make a surprise attack on someone in a certain warehouse. Project is inspected. There will be a "tired" day in any job. In fact, the signs of false stories and perfunctory work were already vague before the Guangdong and Guangxi strategy. Due to the problem of the ability and quantity of cadres, the administrative system of the Senate is actually very weak. If the senators themselves cannot be on the front line personally or at least pretend to be on the front line at any time, the execution of many things will be distorted.
"Old Liu!"
He called out, and Liu Gang, who had been following him, immediately took a few steps and came to his side.
"Chief..."
"You go to the salt warehouse first and see how the inventory is doing." Ai Zhixin said, "A new batch of salt arrived yesterday. You go and take a look to see if the salt and the tickets are correct."
With the Senate taking control of Hainan and Guangdong, Ming's salt fields in Guangdong and Hainan were already under the control of the Senate. However, for a while, they were unable to effectively control the production of the salt fields, and they were unable to equip enough qualified naturalized cadres to manage the salt fields, so they could only strictly control the circulation field to ensure the implementation of the salt monopoly system.
There are many ways to engage in private fraud in salt affairs, and salt people are not kind little white rabbits. Private salt merchants will not hand over ready-made profits to others - whether it is the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, no matter what Or Australians. Since ancient times, those who dare to sell private salt have always prepared their swords to lick blood.
Liu Gang was a private salt merchant and knew a lot about these routines. Ai Zhixin was willing to recruit him to the Salt Service Company of the Monopoly Bureau precisely because of this.
"Yes, Chief!"
Liu Gang took the people there. Because of the need to support the issuance of new currency, the need to stabilize prices and ensure the supply of important livelihood materials has been mentioned many times at the economic work conference. Therefore, Ai Zhixin's salt monopoly policy is to stabilize market prices and fully supply the market with low-priced salt. First, it ensures the supply of salt in the market, and at the same time drives out illegal salt, stabilizes the market, and then slowly raises prices.
However, this was easier said than done. Liu Gang's past partners were dishonest and took advantage of the Senate's offer of low-priced salt and hoarded it in large quantities. Therefore, in addition to the decline in salt prices in areas directly accessible to the commercial circulation field of the Senate, the price of salt in the vast rural areas is still relatively high.
Ai Zhixin lit a cigar - it seems that effective regulation cannot be achieved without a state-owned commercial network. The materials that were sold off were hoarded by profiteers.
Busy time always passes quickly. Throughout the morning, Ai Zhixin not only randomly inspected multiple warehouses on the spot, but also randomly checked several account books and original vouchers. A lot of documents were signed and a number of naturalized people were summoned. When I finally stopped to eat the bento sent by Ai Yixin, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon. He was sitting and eating his lunch when he suddenly saw the "Ship Arrival" signal flag rising from the port's surveillance tower through the window.
The arrival time of most of the Senate's steam-sail hybrid transport ships is not precise to what time. They can only roughly know whether they arrive in the morning, afternoon or evening of a certain day.
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