Chapter 193 Minister of Finance
Opportunities always come quietly when unexpected times.
In order to welcome the arrival of the German Military Advisory Group, the government organized a special cocktail party to thank the German Advisory Group for its full help to China.
As the 11th Division that was given key assistance, Zheng Yong was also invited.
He met General Seckert of the German Military Advisory Group for the first time. Zheng Yong obviously showed a strong interest in this famous general.
Zheng Yong's reputation has become well-known to the German military because of Dr. Schneider. General Secette also expressed his due respect to this young Chinese colleague.
After asking about some battles related to Fengtian and the situation about the 11th Division, General Seckert handed Zheng Yong a letter sent by Schneider to himself.
In the letter, Schneider once again expressed his blessings for Zheng Yong and the 11th Division to escape the danger, and expressed his willingness to do everything possible to help his old friends in Germany...
Old friend, this doctor is indeed an old friend of himself and the 11th Division.
While chatting, the tall and rich God of Wealth Kong Xiangxi and his wife Song Ailing appeared at the cocktail party.
Anyone can offend, but the God of Wealth cannot offend. This is the truth that officials know.
As soon as the Kong couple appeared, many nobles immediately greeted each other. Kong Xiangxi was versatile and greeted people everywhere.
Following the Kong couple is a teenage girl, short and thin. The only one among the children of the Kong family is that except for Miss Kong Lingjun and Kong Er, it is not the second choice.
Miss Kong Er is also a famous figure.
Among the descendants of Jiang, Song and Kong families, Song Meiling had a special liking for this strange niece, so she accepted her as her daughter and obeyed her words.
This person has been urinating wildly since childhood. He likes to provoke classmates to fight in school, and he watches himself. In her early 10s, she learns to shoot and drive at the age of thirteen. Her wife loves her very much and often praises her.
"Ling Jun is born bold and arrogant, and looks like a girl and a man, very much like me."
When he came to General Seckert, he pointed a little with Zheng Yong, and then said with a smile: "Mr. General is very talkative. Kong Xiangxi takes the liberty, please forgive me."
Sekt said, holding onto monocle glasses.
"No, I'm chatting with General Zheng."
"Teacher Zheng." Kong Xiangxi seemed to see everyone smiling.
"Kong Xiangxi has long admired Commander Zheng's reputation and wanted to visit him for a long time, but Commander Zheng is busy with military affairs and has never gotten the opportunity. I am very lucky to see him here today."
"I dare not, it should be Zheng Yong going to pay homage to Minister Kong, it's rude." Zheng Yong lowered his head slightly and said.
Several other government officials met with General Seckert. Seckert apologized and left Kong Xiangxi and Zheng Yong to chat alone.
Kong Xiangxi and Zheng Yong sat down on the sofa next to him and said.
"Teacher Zheng was promoted to major general so young. I think the future of Commander Zheng is unlimited."
"Minister Kong laughed. Zheng Yong was just lucky and got the chairman's wrong love."
"As young as a high-ranking official, he is so humble. If everyone in our party and country are like this, why worry about not being able to be strong?" Kong Xiangxi spoke beautifully, but Zheng Yong heard that he was full of empty words.
"Why didn't you see Mrs. Zheng?" Song Ailing interrupted.
Zheng Yong smiled: "She said she came from the countryside and was afraid of making a fool of herself when she came to this big scene, so she stayed at home."
"Is that?" Song Ailing seemed surprised: "I heard from the third sister that I had invited you to a simple meal. When I talked to the third sister a few days ago, she praised Mrs. Zheng for her beauty and virtuousness. What I heard was different from what General Zheng said."
Kong Xiangxi laughed.
"If you have a good wife in your family, you will have a treasure. How can you easily show treasures to others?"
Zheng Yong laughed a few times, and suddenly thought about how to get in love with this scheming God of Wealth, who seemed to be scheming but actually had a scheming God of Wealth.
"Teacher Zheng is the favorite general of the chairman. If you have any difficulties, just say that if you can help, Kong must do his best." Kong Xiangxi said with a smile.
Zheng Yong thought for a moment.
"At present, our division has received the love of the chairman and the government, and there is no difficulty. Speaking of this, I have to thank Minister Kong for his financial support. If Minister Kong had no financial support, I would probably not be as good as the 11th Division today..."
"Where is my credit, what is my credit?" Kong Xiangxi waved his hand and said.
"If I had no order from the Chairman, even if I, Kong, had a hundred courages, I would never dare to use a penny."
A simple sentence has blocked all the ways Zheng Yong wants to ask him to allocate funds.
Zheng Yong secretly cursed in his heart as a cunning old thing.
However, this old guy is not only cunning, but also very courageous.
When the Wuchang Uprising broke out, the Shanxi revolutionaries immediately raised their troops to respond and restored the provincial capital Taiyuan on October 29, 1911.
After hearing the news, the Qing officials in Taigu County slipped away, which made the county fall into a disorderly state of being headless and losing control of public security.
At the same time, the Qing soldiers who were defeated from Taiyuan flew in groups towards Taigu, posing a serious threat to the social stability of the county. Under such circumstances, Kong Xiangxi stepped forward and organized the members of the merchant group, patrol officers and their students in Taigu County to establish the Taigu Camp Affairs Office, and served as the general office, taking on the important task of protecting the country and safeguarding the people and maintaining local public security.
After that, when Yuan Shikai sent a Qing army to suppress the Shanxi revolution, Kong Xiangxi sent three groups of students to form a suicide squad and rushed to Niangzi Pass to fight against the Qing army; while he continued to sit in Taigu and was responsible for maintaining local public order.
After chatting, I somehow turned to the financial issue. I thought Qiu Ba like Zheng Yong didn’t know what finance was, that is, he was waiting for the chairman to arrive. He was really bored and talk nonsense.
When Kong Xiangxi was the Minister of Finance, he clearly proposed to use "increase revenue and reduce expenditure" as the financial management policy to solve the country's financial difficulties and promote social and economic development;
He also emphasized that "there is a new budget that needs to be added urgently, and it cannot be stopped due to reductions", and repeatedly promised to do its best to raise military expenditures for the "bandit suppression" mobilized by the Chairman.
Zheng Yong's mind flew around, remembering that he had learned this content before and had argued with his mother of that era.
"I think the deficit finance is very consistent with the current situation in China..." Zheng Yong organized it for a moment and said in a distorted manner.
"oh?"
Kong Xiangxi was stunned for a moment, and his eyes were turned to Zheng Yong again, making him more curious.
The deficit finance is what I have tried my best to advocate and is taking action.
It was really strange that Qiu Ba had the same opinion as him.
"General Zheng still has research on financial issues?" Kong Xiangxi said slowly after returning to normal.
"I dare not, I'm just a little interested." Seeing Kong Xiangxi's appearance, he seemed to have touched his pulse.
"The chairman has not arrived yet, why not discuss it together?" Kong Xiangxi said lightly.
This is nothing more than the fiscal policy of balancing the budget after Kong Xiangxi took office, and the fiscal policy of balancing the budget that his predecessor Song Ziwen tried to implement and the fiscal policy of expansionary deficits was implemented to provide military expenditures to the chairman.
The result of the implementation of this fiscal policy has led to a huge fiscal deficit and a sharp increase in the number of government bonds, which has made the country's finances more difficult.
However, financial difficulties are not difficult, and it is not something I should care about at the moment. What I should do most now is to get close to Kong Xiangxi and bring the greatest benefits to his 11th Division.
However, the series of actions taken by Kong Xiangxi in the early stage were still very beneficial to China, such as significantly reducing taxes and so on...
Just as he was about to talk further, Kong Xiangxi's secretary hurried over and said in his ear, "The Chairman's car has reached the door."
Kong Xiangxi stood up and said something inadvertently.
"Teacher Zheng, tomorrow is the little girl's birthday. If it's convenient, let's have a simple meal with your wife."
As soon as he was obedient, Zheng Yong was overjoyed and quickly agreed.
Unexpectedly, Miss Kong Er opened her eyes wide.
"If you are a soldier, remember to bring me a gun tomorrow, otherwise you won't want to enter my house."
Zheng Yong was stunned there, what kind of woman? No, what kind of girl is this?
"The Chairman and Mrs. arrive!" A voice sounded outside the door
Amid the applause, the chairman and his wife walked in.
Everyone met him one after another, and Zheng Yong slowly fell to the end with the crowd.
Chapter completed!