Chapter 555: The Eve of the Storm

Entering June, the situation in the Bohai Sea has further changed.

It didn't get better, it got worse. By this time, only three of the eleven ships of silver that were supposed to be shipped from Nagasaki to the port of Dengshu had successfully entered the port.

The proportion is getting lower and lower. Except for the bad sea conditions brought about by the heavy rains, which caused one to sink in the storm, the others were taken by the more frenzied pirates.

At this point, Wang Gongchen was anxious, and wrote a letter to inform Wang Yan: Now the import of silver is basically in a state of stagnation, and the Japanese have refused to ship silver.

Whether Japan chose to re-export silver from Goryeo is not known for the time being, Wang Gongchen only knows that there are no ships to transport to Dengju Port now.

Even if the conditions for exchanging materials between the Great Song Dynasty and Japan were already favorable, and the conditions given by the Goryeo were very poor, it was possible that the trade rights would be taken away by Goryeo. Because this continued, there were not so many people dying in that unproductive part of Japan, and there were not so many ships wrecked.

In addition, Japan's local silver smelting methods and silver mining methods lagged behind the Great Song Dynasty in the past, and now it is two generations behind, and the output efficiency of silver is very low. Therefore, the silver itself cannot be eaten or used, and the silver they have spent a lot of money refining can no longer withstand such a toss.

This is the rhetoric of Wang Gongchen's letter.

Wang Gongchen did not dare to send troops, with his channels and connections in Liao, this matter was the interests and conspiracy of Liao, and he Wang Gongchen must have been the first to know.

Everything is a matter of profit, and a large amount of silver from Dengzhou was re-exported by the Japanese, which in itself was a large vested interest of Wang Gongchen. He didn't want to lose, so he definitely jumped to his feet.

At the earliest, Wang Yan said that Dengzhou was Wang Gongchen's basic plate, and the method of judging was very simple, when he was the Minister of Finance, he happened to change the silver trade imported from Suzhou Mingzhou Port to Dengzhou Port.

Theoretically, the policy of entering Suzhou Port during Zhang Fangping's period is more suitable, because although the southern part of the Great Song Dynasty during this period was underdeveloped, Suzhou and Hangzhou were exceptional, and it was the largest important town in the southern part of the Great Song Dynasty, with a lot of characteristic handicrafts of the Great Song Dynasty and a huge population base.

But after Wang Gongchen came to power, it also made sense to re-export silver to Dengzhou under the new economic policy, and no one else could interfere, including Lao Zhao.

The reason of the politicians is very good, Wang Gongchen said that Shandong is more important than Suzhou and Hangzhou, and there is no serious clan influence in the southeast, and it is closer to Tokyo and the Daimyo's Mansion, and close to the border trade of Liao, so the silver currency is the most efficient here.

About these politicians, Wang Yan doesn't want to ask now. However, the unavoidable problem was that Wang Gongchen's letter urged him very urgently, asking the First Railway Construction Engineering Bureau of the Department of Industry to work hard to speed up the construction period of the railway, and to let the railway pass to Dengzhou as soon as possible, so that the materials of the Daimyo Mansion could be used for dumping and regain the dominance of silver on the most favorable terms.

Otherwise, not only Wang Gongchen pills, but also Wang Yan would also need pills.

Because during this period, Shandong and Hebei were indeed the most developed areas in the Great Song Dynasty, and now the Daimyofu was the most serious area of deflation in the Great Song Dynasty due to the outbreak of material production.

So this is not only the problem of Wang Gongchen on Jingdong Road, but also the core interests of the Daimyofu, the first industrial town.

It's not a good thing that money is worth too much!

Without the silver of the Fujiwara clan into the Daimyo's Mansion to "inject water", there are more and more materials, and the less and less currency now means that the price of materials has fallen wildly, and the profiteers from Yanjing and protected by the hegemony of the Liao State can exchange more materials than before with more silver than before.

That's pretty much it.

If the Fujiwara clan's silver was directly injected into the daimyo as currency, and the shortage of silver was alleviated, the factories would no longer regard silver as a much-needed treasure, and the materials would naturally be sold at a price.

But now the silver of the Fujiwara clan did not enter the Daimyo's mansion, and it was re-exported to the hands of the Goryeo, Jurchen, and Liao people. That means that under the appreciation caused by the lack of silver, the Goryeo, Jurchen, and Liao people used the silver they robbed together to easily exchange the crystallization of the productivity of the Great Song Dynasty to feed their robbers.

So on this issue, Wang Yan and Wang Gongchen are as violent as thunder. The Japanese had no choice but to do business with the Great Song Dynasty, at most they would leave a small share and enter Suzhou Port under Bao Zheng's policy, but that little bit was in the south, and the currency transmission effect on the industrial town of Daimyo was almost negligible.

But now there is no solution, and the imperial court does not have the relevant authorization.

The easiest way is to go to the army, bulldoze the sixteen states of Yanyun, and the Song army drove across the Yalu River to teach Goryeo sticks to be people, but the price is too great, because the Great Song Dynasty does not have a tank sea for the time being.

Not breaking face with the Liao State and intervening in the Bohai Sea with the navy is still the most effective and low-cost method. It is true that it is a symptom but not a cure, but insisting on waiting until the day when the deployment of the Great Song Tank Sea is completed, it is not a big problem.

In addition, at the same time as these problems occurred, Cho Yoon-hee also seemed to have disappeared, and he went to Goryeo and never returned.

House arrest is not enough, it may be that she has been tricked, like Liu Xuande is in a state of not thinking about it. In short, she visited in the honor of royalty and technology, and now she has not returned, which also means that her beating of Goryeo is useless, and even intensified against it.

Now not only the Goryeo pirates, but even the Jurchen pirates with the best navigation skills in this era have begun their burning expeditions. Wang Gongchen's latest report in the north of Yanyun: The Jurchen ship has passed through the Korean Strait and detoured to the Bohai Inland Sea to participate in the harassment of Japanese trading ships.

This is not the instructions of the father's country, no one believes it, the Jurchens and the Goryeo people have a bitter hatred, and they have beaten each other out of their dog brains a long time ago, how could the Goryeo people allow them to cross the Korean Strait?

If nothing else, the supply of the Jurchen pirates was in the Liao State "Suzhou", and the Liao State officially supplied them.

This can be regarded as the feedback of the Liao people. At that time, those people brought into Qingtang by Dayan were considered volunteers, and the current Goryeo and Jurchen pirates are estimated to be the volunteers of the Liao State in the Bohai Sea.

For the time being, these things can only be endured.

While replying to Wang Gongchen, Dayan urged the First Railway Engineering Bureau, the Northwest Investment Bank, and the construction period of the Bianjing Coal Yard:

"At all costs, with quality and quantity, we must complete the railway from Daimyofu to Dengzhou before December of the fifth year of Jiayou. It is necessary to ensure the output capacity of our Great Song Dynasty to intervene in the Bohai Sea and interfere in the regional security situation next year. ”

This is the instructions of the Great Demon King. In response to this instruction, a large number of bureaucrats in the Daimyo Prefecture have left Beijing, gone down to the grassroots level, and moved into various sections.

On the other side, the Grand Canal couldn't go fast, and then I heard that the Grand Canal policy had been sprayed into a sieve in Bianjing, so the Great Demon King decisively ordered them to keep a low profile, reduce part of the construction resources, and use half of the water conservancy engineering bureau as reinforcements to invest in the construction of the Dengzhou section of the railway......

The rain situation at the end of June was good, and this is destined to be a comfortable and good year. Of course, we must first eliminate the bad overseas situation and the frenzied deflationary situation.

At this point, the import of silver has been cut off for two months, and she can't even see Fujiwara Mitsuko's face, so maybe she won't love her after she finds out that the Great Demon King is an irresponsible man.

There is really no shortage of young lady Da Yan, so it doesn't matter whether Fujiwara Mitsuko loves it or not. However, the Daimyo's currency injection was imminent, and it was much more conservative than Tokyo, and its acceptance of Jiaozi was limited. It has to be real money.

But now there is no real money, and these metals that cannot be eaten or used have now really become the in-demand materials of the Daimyo's mansion.

Seeing that materials were getting cheaper and cheaper, gold, silver and copper were becoming more and more valuable, and that the money made by increasing production was getting less and less, and the capitalists' tolerance was eventually limited, so investment began to slow down.

Under the trend that cash is king, factories have stopped expanding and recruiting workers, and the wages paid are decreasing.

Under the trend of money becoming more and more valuable, most of the people are no longer buying, buying, buying, and preferring to save money to continue to wait for the price of materials to fall.

It's not pill time yet, but it's really not good.

For this reason, Oyo decided to take a risk and planned to urgently transfer silver and copper coins from the vaults of the two major banks in Tokyo, namely the Coal Bank and the Agricultural Bank of Communications, into the Beijing area to participate in the currency.

The difficulty lies in two places. The reason for Cao Ji is: in the Great Song Dynasty, he can only fight a good war, and if the silver source of Wadao continues, it means that the situation is very good, and the more popular people are, the more trust others will have. At that time, even if Dayan emptied the cash reserves of the Coal Deposit Bank, it would be no problem, and the people who held the Coal Bonds would not come to run, but would come to send money again.

But in the current situation, the big demon king sees that there is no way out, and he also draws the cash of the coal traffic bank for emergency purposes, Cao Ji's analysis: within half a month, the original large and small customers will concentrate on the coal transportation bank, and this situation can not be cashed out, and there may be a way to go during the Wang Gongchen period, but in the Bao Zheng period, the coal transportation bank will directly stop cooking.

Cao Ji said that unless Dayan persuaded Lao Bao to guarantee the coal exchange bank with the reputation of the three divisions, and release the reserves. Then Cao Ji, the CEO, dared to accept this policy, and used a special train to transport cash to Beijing to buy and buy unsalable materials.

If you don't look at the risks, this is simply a miraculous operation, and it is a frenzied harvest. When cash is king, bring a few big boats of money to buy cheap unsalable materials all over the ground, and after the cash is released, the materials will appreciate, and everyone will start to buy materials, and release a large number of hoarded materials in their hands, then of course it will be profitable.

It's a pity that Cao Ji thinks: at some point, confidence is everything, and this is not a tailwind battle but a hard war. If you win, you will have great benefits, but if you lose, you will lose everything.

Therefore, Xiaocao demanded that "the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank" must jointly guarantee and release deposit reserves before they can fight this battle.

This is also an egg, Bao Zheng doesn't understand this, when Wang Yan does something, he doesn't understand it, he won't just stop interfering. But when Wang Yan asked him to make a move, he would rather not do it than cooperate because he didn't understand, for fear of forming a blind act. This is the characteristic of a party with a legal system, not a shortcoming, but a characteristic.

Zhao Yunxi of the Coal Exchange Bank is big-chested and brainless, but he is easy to speak. But now she is not in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and Wang Yan can't open the vault of the Agricultural Communications Bank without her signature.

Damn pills.

Forced to be in a hurry, Da Yan now has to lower his old face and talk to all the wealthy tyrants in Beijing, but those who have a lot of real money at home are on the list of the big devil's tea party.

The tea party is for Amway, and they buy "iron rolls".

It's not a bond, it's a bond. Jiaozi has monetary attributes in the Great Song Dynasty, but bonds are only certificates of deposit.

This is to use the endorsement of the best railway assets in the Great Song Dynasty to raise the first batch of liquidity by using the last credibility of the Great Song Dynasty government.

Originally, I didn't expect it to sell well, because the big demon king was not liked in Beijing.

But unexpectedly, there is no cold market, and the iron bond has sold quite well since its issuance. The common people came to buy the most, and although the interest rate was not high, many of the people did not dare to deposit their money in the business, and they were worried about putting the money at home, because the security of the Daimyo's Mansion was really not good compared to Tokyo. So some people take the lead, and some people follow.

After all, the Great Demon King is well-known in some aspects, and the railway, as a new artifact, has always been very famous. The Great Demon King did not disappoint in major matters, so in the end, the bonds were successfully sold out.

With this money, we can hold on for a while, but no one knows whether we can persist until the Bohai Sea problem is solved.

In short, in line with the principle of imperialism, it is all about money, and the necessity of this war is getting bigger and bigger, but it is difficult to say when it will break out. In this case, it has used a generation of laundry detergent as an excuse to send troops to Iraq to fight the oil war, but unfortunately the Great Song Dynasty still does not have a thief eagle, not that it can send troops......

Now shipbuilding does not have process problems in principle.

The wood hull process is existing, and it can be used by repairing and modifying. But the design scheme of the first generation of frigates of the Navy has not yet come out.

The relevant personnel of the Shipyard of the Engineering Academy and the Beijing Shipyard have entered Dengzhou under the leadership of Lao Luo Dad and under the protection of the forbidden army to set up the Dengzhou Shipyard directly under the Industrial Division.

Earlier, they mainly designed and built flat-bottomed river boats, and the specific first-generation naval frigate scheme needed to be developed by the shipyard and shipyard personnel based on the sea state data there.

Wang Yan's request is that he must come up with a plan before September and take out a verification ship for sea trials by February next year.

At the same time, the sea trial is also a military training, and the first phase of the Beijing Garrison Department will be transferred to the navy to carry out sea trial verification with the title of "ship test technician". Then, according to the Navy's verification feedback, the first-generation frigate must be finalized in May next year at the latest.

At that time, in addition to the opening of the Dengzhou Railway, the Great Demon King would also get a greater index of "Beijing Navy Entering Dengzhou Trial" from the Privy Council, so there was no need to hang the reputation of the sea trial officer of the Engineering Academy.

So Wang Yan's idea: the first phase of the verification ship continued to train the navy in sea trials, and at the same time, relying on the railway, a large number of semi-finished products were transported to the Dengzhou shipyard, and began to concentrate on the explosion of ships, place orders for the purchase of first-generation frigates, and form two integrated navies.

If nothing else, in about fifteen months, the Great Song Dynasty will form a naval force to intervene in the Bohai Sea for the first time.

The stall literary party is basically crazy, and as early as a few months ago they began to boast: shock! The Great Demon King's words frightened Bohai and did not dare to move, and the Great Song Dynasty had the military ability to suppress Bohai within nine months.

Damn, although the angry youth and the imperialist party love to hear this, it is too nonsense. The Great Demon King has tried his best to publicize, but he also needs to spend more than twenty months to prepare for the Bohai Sea under the condition of playing countless side balls. They are so awesome that they say nine months? This is not a killing, but an instigation of the Liao people to intervene in advance.

The Great Demon King decided to set up a strategic flickering bureau.

You can't let these guys who are full of horses blow all day long, and when the time is right, the government-run pill party has to intervene to adjust it. Perhaps the situation in the Bohai Sea has evolved so quickly and so badly, that is, the CIA of the Liao State was "shocked" by these stalls and literary parties in the Daimyo Mansion.

Su Shi is a person who is eloquent and has acting talents, and will be lukewarm and disobedient to the Great Demon King. So the Great Demon King appointed him as the first director of the Strategic Fooling Bureau. Probably as an official as a guest, organize a group of newspapers to be interviewed or something all day long, and answer some macro questions.

Su Shi's ability is very special, he can use a surprisingly fresh and cool sense of humor, neither pills nor kill the Great Song Dynasty, and sometimes comment on a few words of the Great Demon King's policies and so on.

In an interview in mid-July, a newspaper asked Su Shi a number of questions about "Shen Kuo's research and development of flying machines."

Xiao Qingxin replied: Some of the problems you are referring to are actually a problem, Shen Kuo's brain circuit is very clear, so the biggest problem with the aircraft is that it will be successful if you don't kill Shen Kuo.

This caused the audience to laugh. Later, Shen Kuo's face turned green.

But the media likes the style of small freshness, and the Daimyo's mansion also needs a little freshness after dinner. As a result, his popularity has become higher and higher, so now the stall literature is a little more low-key.

By the way, Xiao Xinxin likes to comment on the big devil is not pretending to be garlic, it is sincere. Because he was really bought and sold by the Great Demon King. A while ago, he owed about 700 guan to the Qinglou, and this money was paid back by Da Yan, but his 100 beautiful pictures were confiscated by the Great Demon King, and he sent them to Bianjing to sell them to Ye Wushuang's acquaintances, and sold them for 7,000 guan.

Su Shi couldn't complain about this, and the rest of the money was not returned.

The theory of the Great Demon King is that officials are not allowed to owe debts to their subordinates, and they will not be able to pay a penny. So I helped you pay it back, as a creditor, the picture is a mortgage, the term is three months, but you can't afford to redeem, so according to the rules confiscated the collateral, and write off the debt. The painting will become my big bird's, since it is mine, I will buy it and leave it, and it doesn't matter how much I sell.

Su Shi wanted to draw another picture and let the beautiful picture "depreciate with water", but his talent was exhausted, and now he has not visited the Qinglou for a long time, and he can't draw it. So now I can only use words as the official spokesperson to slowly outline the industrial blueprint of the Great Demon King......