"The most profitable thing in Goryeo is lead mines, and I heard that the domestic demand for batteries has increased significantly, and lead is not worried about selling. The second is copper ore, which is not worried about selling. Iron ore basically does not make money, but it is easy to mine. Let's add up to a lot......"

"The renminbi was issued smoothly in Goryeo, and bank branches were set up in major towns and cities in Goryeo. The Korean people have a growing demand for yuan......"

"Our food prices are much lower than those in Goryeo, and we thought that the price of food in Goryeo, a poor place, was low. Unexpectedly, in renminbi terms, the local grain prices in Korea are several times higher than those in our country. No wonder this place is so poor that you can't afford to eat! ”

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I saw a lot of them during the inspection, and when I returned to Seoul, Yan Fu was finally able to link a large number of reports from various departments with the actual situation. Although Yan Fu still has many things that he does not understand, for example, Yan Fu has not understood why the price of grain in the poor place of Goryeo is several times higher than that in China. Since you earn less, you naturally can't afford to buy food. It stands to reason that food prices will be cheaper and cheaper in this situation, not higher and higher.

In response to this question, the new head of the Seoul Bank and the Pyongyang Bank, Gu Dahe, replied: "The grain of the Goryeo landlords cannot be sold to Japan, and the Daewonjun wants the local landlords to pay the grain according to the amount." The Goryeo landlords could only raise the price of grain. They are not our Minchao, which is about to abolish the agricultural tax completely, and the more grain you sell, the more you earn. If you raise the price, who will buy your grain? ”

Although this explanation is a bit too simple, the internal logical relationship is a little profound, and Yan Fu understands it. He admired Gu Dahe a little, this guy used to be a senior bank in a certain province, and this time he was ordered to come to Goryeo together. Yan Fu went out to inspect, and Gu Dahe stayed in Seoul to hand over the task. I didn't expect his opinion of Goryeo to be so deep.

"What about the social contradictions in Goryeo?" Yan Fu asked Gu Dahe about this fundamental question.

"I haven't seen private land for many years, and I don't know how far the situation has gotten in Goryeo." Gu Dahe replied straightforwardly.

The Republic of China pursued the policy of state-owned land, and at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it used the might of a hundred battles to equally divide land use rights, which satisfied the people's desire for land. In the years that followed, however, Weeser was not satisfied with that. The great significance of land nationalization is propagated every year, and the flip side of "the tiller has his land" is that "those who do not plough have no land", and Weeser pointed out this problem mercilessly.

Any clear idea that has been propagated for ten or twenty years will always impress everyone like brainwashing. At least the upper echelons of the Minguo Dynasty have clearly understood that land is only a means of production, and there is no longer the function that can be used as wealth in the era of small farmers. Whoever dares to promote the private sale of land for profit will wait to be beheaded by the Governor of Weidu.

Therefore, although Gu Dahe's answer makes everyone feel a little similar to shirking responsibility, it is very convincing. It is indeed not easy to judge the crisis problem under the Goryeo system by the standards of the Min Dynasty.

Gu Dahe did not blindly shirk it, he continued: "Once the Korean people used the renminbi and the banking system we built, the value of their labor finally had a stable measure. As long as there is such a measure, their days will not be too sad. ”

"Why is that?" Yuan Weiting hurriedly asked. He had never heard of the relationship between the bank and the people's livelihood of the country, and the previous person in charge of the bank would never have this kind of communication.

"With an equivalent exchange that can measure labor in a stable manner, there is a uniform standard. In the future, the Koreans did not have to think about how to barter with what they had, let alone exchange what they had for wealth such as gold and silver. As long as they have a way to earn RMB, they will be able to buy almost everything they want with RMB. All relationships have become simpler, and the sources of products are no longer limited to Goryeo, so their lives will not be difficult. Gu Dahe explained.

Without waiting for Yuan Weiting to say anything, Gu Dahe continued: "But according to our domestic experience, the life of Goryeo's handicraftsmen will not be easy. ”

When he said this, Gu Dahe had some indignation in his tone, not because he had any opinions about the Koreans, but because it reminded Gu Dahe of his own experience. As the brother-in-law of Wang Mingshan, the governor of the central bank, Gu Dahe originally had a bright future, at least everyone and himself thought that the future would be bright. However, Gu Dahe was involved in the problem of borrowing money from the bank in the province, and the money could not be recovered, and a catastrophe was about to come. Fortunately, Wang Mingshan didn't really abandon his brother-in-law, and sent Gu Dahe to the ghost place of Goryeo with a paper order. For the time being, there is no need to worry about debts that cannot be recovered.

After learning from the pain, Gu Dahe felt that according to the training he received, the situation in the province of the Republic of China was quite similar to the situation in Goryeo. It is just a multiplication of the scale of the handicraft industry of the original small-scale peasant economy. If it is really only the size of a small farmer's handicraft workshop, he will probably be able to sell his labor force and become a proletarian after bankruptcy. The provincial factory has invested a lot of money, and it is even more indebted, and it wants to go bankrupt but can't.

Regardless of the origin of Gu Dahe's emotions, these words are still insightful. The crowd couldn't help but nod slightly, admiring the analysis of senior financial talents.

After summarizing and straightening out the basic situation a little, Yan Fu began to make a statement on his own work, "This meeting was very good, not to solve any problems, but to let the comrades know what we are facing." At this time, I would like to mention the system of internal democratic discussion. Of course, this is the democracy of our Chinese, and it has nothing to do with the Koreans. ”

This sparked laughter at the upper level of the office, which seemed to everyone to be nonsense, and Koreans and Chinese had little in common. People gather like things, things are divided into groups, and if they are not of our race, their hearts will be different. Such a simple truth does not need to be thought about too much.

In the face of this relaxed reaction, Yan Fu looked calm, "Within the system of our office, do we want to talk about democracy?" There is no democracy between us and the Koreans, but are we going to do everything to the Koreans because of this? ”

Wei Ze's instructions to Yan Fu emphasized these two contents, since it is unlikely that the Republic of China will wipe out all other countries in the world, it is necessary to start trying to establish the bottom line now.

"I came from the navy and traveled a lot with the fleet. The people of those places were not without resistance to the foreign colonists. Not long ago, Goryeo rebelled fiercely, and one of the targets of the rebellion was their neighbor Japan, which had been their neighbor for thousands of years. The governor has an order that what we are seeking in Goryeo is China's interests, so it is not our choice to expropriate and extort money. Even if we want to gather, we will gather the labor force of Goryeo. Yan Fu said seriously.

Few of the people could understand what this meant, and those who could didn't want to speak right away. Yan Fu finally said: "I may not fully understand the meaning of the governor, so we need to understand the meaning of the governor little by little through our internal discussion and study." Therefore, in the name of the secretary of the party committee, I put forward a request that the organizational system of the office in Korea be established and strengthened in the future. This is not a discussion, this is an order! ”

Without waiting for the others to speak, Yuan Weiting and Wang Shizhen said almost at the same time: "We obey the orders of the organization!" ”

Li Hongzhang looked at Yuan Weiting and Wang Shizhen, who immediately approached the organization, with slightly complicated eyes, and his heart churned.