There were many warlords during the Republic of China, some of them were very dramatic, and some of them were very good at acting and saying beautiful things, which produced a very interesting phenomenon, that is, the descendants of the peasants who paid the tax to 2010 shouted injustice to the marshals of the Republic of China on the Internet.
According to 1937 statistics, only 5% of the population of the Republic of China lived in the 17th Republic of China with a growth rate of more than 50,000 people, which means that 95% of the residents of the Republic of China lived in rural areas and were forced by the agricultural taxes of the Marshals of the Republic of China. Warlords in Sichuan and elsewhere actually collected taxes until 2010 and forced Sichuan farmers to grow opium. The Sichuan warlords were very unproductive, but they were very active in fighting internal wars in Sichuan, and the Sichuan peasants were naturally miserable.
The Sichuan warlords did not show up, and the marshals in the northeast and Shanxi were very ambitious. Zhang Zuolin and Yan Xishan both vigorously developed the military industry and also invested heavily in education, so they were looked up to by many melon-eating people. But if you are a resident of Shanxi and the three eastern provinces, I am afraid that you will not see it that way. In 1924, when the Jin and Sui armies were vigorously expanded, Yan Xishan vigorously promoted a series of taxes in Shanxi, such as slaughter tax, fur tax, coal tax, livestock tax, match tax, parcel tax, sales tax, and landing tax. No matter how much Shanxi's taxes increased, it cannot be compared with the three eastern provinces, Guangdong, Jiangsu and other places, and Yan Xishan simply played the game of printing money.
Yan Xishan's father is a Jin businessman who plays finance, and he participated in the family's financial business when he was a teenager, but because his family had too little capital, he failed in the financial competition of Jin businessmen. Before 1924, Shanxi Province banknotes were only put in more than one million yuan a year, and the ratio of Jin banknotes to silver dollars was 1:1. In the nearly six years from 1924 to 1930, Yan Xishan overissued more than 70 million Jin banknotes. These banknotes have no silver dollar reserves at all, and most of them are waste paper. Yan Xishan used these banknotes to expand the arsenal, invest in the military industry, and usher in the great expansion of the Jin and Sui Army.
If the financial policy of the Jin Suijun is to be maintained, it must continue to expand. After Yan Xishan took Beijing, Tianjin, Zhizhi and other places, he looted the gold and silver reserves of major banks in the north, and had the courage to take away the wealth of Tianjin Customs and become the master of the entire north and even China. The ranks of the Jin and Sui armies became larger and larger, and the Jin banknotes became more and more worthless, and the exchange of Jin banknotes and silver dollars during the Great War in the Central Plains had become 4 to one. After the defeat in the Great War in the Central Plains, a large number of armed forces from other provinces such as the Northwest Army also poured into Shanxi, and also made a large set of purchases of waste paper-like Jin banknotes, and the exchange of Jin banknotes and silver dollars was directly smashed into 15:1. Because of this series of tumultuous operations, 42 Jin merchant pawnshops in Taiyuan were directly closed, and many Shanxi financial institutions were closed.
Zhang Zuolin's father and son in the northeast were no better, the annual income of the three eastern provinces in the 20s was 60 million yuan, and Zhang Zuolin burned a full 400 million yuan in the civil war in order to realize his ambitions. What if I don't have enough money? Zhang Zuolin's approach, like Yan Xishan, also prints a large amount of money like freight paper. Wherever the Fengjun went, he took the waste paper-like money to the end and bought all kinds of materials, and the merchant dared not to admit it, so he directly served with a big mouth.
Because of Zhang Zuolin's ambitions, prices in the northeast tripled in three years, the Fengxi banknote depreciated sixfold, and a large number of industrial and commercial entities in the northeast collapsed in the expansion of the Fengjun. Zhang Zuolin and Yan Xishan are still warlords with great management ability, those who are not famous are even more ruthless, the military leaders in Hebei directly received the tax in 2035, and Henan, which only produced Yuan Shikai, has become a cash machine for various warlords. In the warlord chaos of the Republic of China, a large number of people sold their children and daughters, but the descendants of these people who survived were grateful to the warlords of that year, which can only be described as forgetting their ancestors.