Shichang Town in the south-central part of Guang'an County, this is a very ordinary town, there is no special industry, if you have to say that there is agriculture, it is relatively good, after all, this place already belongs to the Guang'an Plain, the land is more fertile, more suitable for farming.

However, there are too many such places in Guang'an County and even Nanhai Prefecture, even if they are placed in the entire Daheng, such places are nothing.

If we really want to say that the land is fertile and suitable for farming, some counties and towns in the Liangluo region have more fertile land, which is more suitable for cultivation and produces more grain.

However, this town has not been able to live in peace in recent years, because although this place is not on the edge of the Luo River, it is only more than ten kilometers away from the Luo River.

But this is nothing, what is more serious is that in the past two years, the New Army of the South China Sea has also been widely infested here, and even captured this town several times.

Therefore, there have been many battles between the Nanhai New Army and the Guang'an Army, even though the scale is not large, only a few hundred people, but it still brings great disasters to the local people.

Many of the town's buildings are now dilapidated, the result of several battles to defend the town.

In addition, many young men in the town and suburbs were requisitioned by the warring parties, some directly forced to join the army, while others were used as support personnel.

After these several battles, the young and strong population in Shichang Town suffered relatively large losses.

And now, this town, which has just been quiet for less than half a year, has ushered in a group of soldiers in military uniforms.

Whether it was the people in the suburbs or the towns, they all looked at the cavalry with indifference, hatred, and fear.

This cavalry, wearing a dark blue single-breasted shirt and gray straight-leg trousers, just look at the color of this uniform, you can know that this is the army of the Luo An Army in the south.

Of course, some well-informed people who are more concerned about the situation already know that the army wearing this kind of military uniform is no longer just the Luo An Army, but has become the Southern Navy.

With the arrival of the Nanhai cavalry outside the town, there was some commotion in the town, but calm was soon restored, and then the town gates were opened, and several officials came out with a small number of escorts waving white flags.

The town guards and the escort team of only a few dozen people simply chose to surrender!

Because the cavalry outside the town, there were at least six or seven hundred cavalry, it was a whole cavalry regiment, and they even dragged two cannons.

They are the 2nd Dragoon Regiment, which belongs to the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the Southern Navy, and the reason why they appeared here is not to say that they are trying to capture this place, they just went all the way north and happened to pass through here.

The 1st Cavalry Brigade and the 2nd Cavalry Brigade and other cavalry units were cooperating with the 2nd Division and other troops to quickly pursue the enemy along the Luo River.

The 2nd Division, the main force, naturally moved north along the Luo River, while the cavalry units scattered to search and cover the 2nd Division.

The 2nd Dragoon Regiment is the outermost cavalry unit deployed, nearly 20 kilometers away from the 2nd Division on the side of the Luo River, otherwise it would not have appeared in Shichang Town.

"Since they have given up resistance, then send people to communicate with the town guards of Toucheng, properly purchase some food and other supplies, and the troops will be stationed directly outside the city, don't enter the city!"

Deng Zhicheng, the commander of the 2nd Dragoon Regiment, gave such an order!

This kind of town has little strategic value, and it does not have thick walls to provide defense, and its defensive effectiveness is not as good as that of digging trenches in the field to build field fortifications.

Therefore, there is no need for the main force to enter the city and station, as long as the other party surrenders, the follow-up is the business of the administrative department, and it has nothing to do with them.

The replenishment of grain went smoothly, because Deng Zhicheng did not rob it openly, but directly sent quartermasters to procure it.

Although the price will definitely be very low, it will still give money, and if it is replaced by troops from other feudal towns, there will be money, and it is usually directly robbed.

But the Southern Navy is different!

Because the Southern Navy under Lin Ziran needs to unify the entire Nanhai Prefecture, this time the Northern Expedition to Guang'an County is also to bring Guang'an County into the scope of his rule.

Therefore, the South China Navy did not regard itself as a guest soldier at all.

Before leaving, Lin Ziran had already ordered the whole army to abide by military discipline during the Northern Expedition, and it was strictly forbidden to disturb the people.

However, this money is naturally not a metal currency, but the first edition of paper money issued by the Nanhai Bank.

Nanhai Bank, which is a policy bank under Lin Ziran's control, and it is worth noting that this Nanhai Bank actually received a large amount of assets from Nanzhou Bank.

Many branches of Nanzhou Bank in the early years have become Nanhai Bank branches by directly changing their signboards.

Because Nanhai Bank is the merger of Luoan Bank and Luohai Bank, the Luohai Bank here was established after Shao Bing integrated and controlled the branch of Nanzhou Bank in Luohai County.

The same is true of the Naan Bank, which was formed on the basis of the Nayang County branch of the Nanzhou Bank in the past.

Otherwise, Lin Ziran would not have pulled out a large-scale bank with business in two counties in less than a year.

Today, Nanhai Bank's business is comprehensive, as a commercial bank, providing ordinary financial and commercial services, and at the same time, it is also an official policy bank, providing financial support such as policy loans, and also issuing metal money and paper money with the Mint under the control of the government.

It's just that the issuance of this banknote is extremely difficult.

Daheng is now full of feudal towns, and almost all of them want to issue paper money to relieve financial pressure, but people are not stupid enough to know that these paper money have no credit value......

Therefore, it is difficult to circulate paper money on a large scale in these years, and there is no paper money issued by any feudal town in Nanhai Prefecture before and now that can be widely circulated, and people often use metal money every day, and generally use commercial bank checks or cashier's checks for large payments.

After seizing Luohai County, Lin Ziran, who controlled the Liangluo region, naturally wanted to establish a set of banknote issuance system, and the purpose was very simple, in order to raise money to fight!

But at the beginning when he was in control of Luo'an County, he tried to issue paper money, but unfortunately it was useless, let alone the people, even if it was used as a salary to pay those administrative officials, those officials were not happy.

In order to avoid being accused of plundering the wealth of the people, the Roan banknotes were recycled and declared invalid just one month after they were issued.

However, you can't always use metal money and cashier's checks issued by commercial banks themselves, which involves currency issuance.

For this reason, after taking Luohai County and forming Luohai Bank, Lin Ziran listened to the advice of some financial advisers under his command some time ago and planned to fight in a roundabout way.

Banknotes are not issued directly in the official name, but in the name of the Bank of the South Sea.

It was not even issued in the name of banknotes, but in the name of Nanhai Bank vouchers.

People can take these vouchers to any branch of Nanhai Bank and directly exchange gold coins or metal currencies such as silver coins and copper coins.

Not to mention, this time the issuance of vouchers in the South China Sea is much smoother, and the people are not enthusiastic to accept it, but at least they are not too resistant, and some merchants in the market have begun to accept this kind of vouchers.

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