With top-down demand and China's support, Goryeo's currency issuance is moving very fast. At the same time that Goryeo ordered a banknote printing press from China, Wang Mingshan told the Goryeo office, "We can only provide original printing presses, in case the Goryeo dog jumps over the wall and tries to print the yuan." ”

Although Gu Dahe was a little troubled by his brother-in-law's refusal to help him comprehensively, he still admired his brother-in-law Wang Mingshan's keen reaction. The layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway. The phrase "try to print the renminbi when the Goryeo dog jumps over the wall in a hurry" seems like a big joke, but from the bank's insiders, Wang Mingshan has made it clear that he is not optimistic about the prospect of the issuance of the Korean currency at all.

The renminbi adopts four-color overprint, convex and concave and watermark anti-counterfeiting. The first currency of Goryeo was the same as the British pound at this time, and it was made of special paper, and there were not so many colors on the printing, but the patterns and signatures were very special. There is no shortage of good craftsmen in East Asia, and even if there is no way to compare with Chinese professionals, engraving masters is not a problem.

By March, and by April, everyone in Korea was about to issue its own banknotes. It must be said that this news caused quite a stir in Goryeo, at least among the scholars and the urban class. Fine banknotes have always been a patent of China, and the renminbi nicknamed "Great Unity" has no problem in passing in Goryeo, and the Koreans naturally think that their own banknotes are not as good as China's renminbi, but they think that there will be no problem with Goryeo banknotes.

This is the credit of Li Hongzhang, and without Director Li's vigorous promotion, this matter may not have gone so smoothly. However, Director Li was questioned at such a time when he was about to be established.

"Director Li, do you think we secretly sell grain to Japan, and China really won't know about it?" Yan Fu's expression was serious, and his tone was serious. Japan's domestic grain was originally insufficient to meet the needs of the people, but two years ago, Japan relied on large imports of low-cost grain from Korea to make up for the shortfall. Now that Goryeo was forbidden to sell grain to Japan, Japan's food shortage immediately increased. Li Hongzhang was very well connected in Goryeo, and many people from Goryeo landlords begged Li Hongzhang to help them smuggle grain to Japan to make money.

Shrewd figures such as Director Lee immediately made his own judgment and suggested at his office in Korea, "Let's just sell grain to Japan under the guise of Koreans." The so-called cheap grain price of the Korean people is much higher than the price of grain in our country. The purchase price of grain in Tohoku is lower than that of grain sold to Japan by Goryeo. ”

As soon as the suggestion came out, it was opposed by Yan Fu, "We want to be second-hand dealers, and the domestic provinces and ministries still want to sell it." ”

"Then we might as well provide this channel to the country, even if the country does not give us benefits, we must always remember our favor." Yuan Weiting at the meeting immediately came up with an idea for a solution.

After hearing this, Li Hongzhang couldn't help but shake his head again and again, this thing is a hairy thing. Real money is only real when it falls into the pocket. After participating in the three sessions, Director Li had an understanding of the struggle at the top, the provinces were short of money, and now the Republic of China was not short of food, so this favor was nothing.

Yan Fu changed the topic, "Japan is short of food to this point? ”

Li Hongzhang replied: "As far as I know, the price of grain in Japanese cities has risen by 20 percent, and they are also engaged in industry, and too many people go to work in urban factories, and grain prices will definitely rise." ”

Hearing this answer, Yan Fu said, "Is there any more detailed information?" ”

Looking at everyone's puzzled looks, Yan Fu explained, "My comrades-in-arms in the navy said that life in Hokkaido is good. Hakodate has always been an important intermediate stop on our route to North America. With this proceeds, coupled with the nationalization of land in Hokkaido, the distribution of food was fairly fair. There are both service industries and coal and iron, but there is no shortage of food over there. ”

Before anyone else could taste these fluttering words, Wang Shizhen asked in a calm tone as usual: "Does Secretary Yan think that the Japanese Meiji government will carry out an armed attack on Hokkaido?" ”

Yan Fu glanced at Wang Shizhen seriously, this young man never shows off on weekdays, he does not have Yuan Weiting's atmosphere and aggressiveness, nor does he have Li Hongzhang's shrewdness that is scheming and refuses to let go of any opportunity. This Wang Shizhen is a person who can use the rules he has learned to judge things, compared with other comrades, Wang Shizhen rarely takes personal interests and personal hobbies as the direction of consideration, so he can always go straight to the point of the topic. In many cases, it highlights his shrewdness.

"We'll report this to the country, and we'll do the rest within the scope of the intelligence we can gather. There's no need to make a fuss. "Yan Fu is a very rational person, he made a very rational decision.

Rationality seems boring, but it is a problem that no one can avoid. At this time, there were indeed calls for a crusade against Hokkaido within the Meiji government in Japan, but the reason was not food.

"More and more people are fleeing to Hokkaido, and the rebels in Hokkaido are colluding with the remnants of the Oku-U-Etsu Domain Alliance in Okuru, and if they are not eradicated quickly, it will definitely become a big problem." As a representative of the crusade faction, Shan County Youpeng has a dark tone that can almost drip water.

In fact, everyone knows the real reason for the crusade, and Hokkaido is located in the north, which is also considered by the Japanese to be a bitter cold place. Unexpectedly, the rebels in Hokkaido relied on China, on the one hand, to establish state ownership of land, to set up agriculture and animal husbandry, and on the other hand, to provide services for China's ocean shipping through ports in Hakodate and other places, and the living standards of the local people were generally higher than those of the three islands of Japan.

Because of the contents of the treaty, Hokkaido is self-governing. The Meiji government was nominally a unified central government of Japan, and there was no way to get the slightest benefit from Hokkaido in terms of finances. Hokkaido also has its own local currency, and the Meiji government could not use yen banknotes to loot Hokkaido.

The puff is not guilty of his crimes. The inability to obtain food, steel, and coal from Hokkaido that the Meiji government urgently needed was not acceptable to the Meiji government. The leaders of Hokkaido were also remnants of the shogunate and sworn enemies of the Meiji government. This is even more intolerable.

More importantly, Hokkaido's land state ownership system was used as a model, and most of the poor people in the Meiji government's controlled areas became more and more interested in Hokkaido's land state ownership system. In the beginning, the people at the bottom of Japan still refused to give up their power over the private ownership of land, and they were uneasy about the state ownership of land. Coupled with the propaganda of the landlords, and even the Meiji government, the propaganda of "communist wives" in Hokkaido became a trend throughout Japan. Hokkaido has been described as a place of utterly evil, where men are villains and women are indecent. Listening to the various slanders against Hokkaido and the erotic descriptions in the "Ichishu" that circulated in the factories, the Meiji government instantly occupied the moral high ground. When these Japanese bigwigs talk about Hokkaido, they do so with great contempt.

But things went beyond imagination. Although the erotic description in "One Book" is considered low-level fun, low-level makes it easy to produce, and fun makes it enjoyable. The high-ranking officials of the Meiji government did not expect that the popularity of such gadgets would have the effect of promoting Hokkaido.

If no one mentions Hokkaido, Hokkaido is just a deserted island in the far north. Repeatedly appearing in the small yellow booklet of "One Book", repeatedly appearing in the cultural entertainment of folk artists close to the bottom, this place that should be far away has been invisibly pulled into the lives of the entire Japanese people. In the ears, in the eyes, in the hands, at the dinner table, Hokkaido does not exist all the time.

The glamorous description, the outrageous but entirely life-based fantasy, gave this otherwise desolate place a warm feeling of pink. Waking up from the drunken and lustful dream of Hokkaido, the people of Mishima, Japan, have to face the cold and cruel reality. I don't know when Hokkaido's image changed from a land of evil to a city of dreams.

Since the Meiji Restoration, there have been too many religiously initiated mass suicides in Japan. The cruel life forced the Japanese people to choose the "other side". Compared to the cost of abandoning one's life, there is no need to die on the other side of Hokkaido. Once you cross the Tsugaru Strait, the pink shore will be revealed.

Two years ago, there was a sudden wave of northward movement that swept across Japan. I can't survive, because I want to elope because of my feelings, or I just want to go to that pink immoral place to see. All kinds of people flocked to the city, and the true face of Hokkaido was suddenly revealed to the entire Japanese people because of the large number of exchanges.

As a result, the Meiji government found that their views on public opinion were very wrong, and they were extremely wrong.