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The sky is gray and bright, and Hetao County (Pelotas) in the south of the Han Kingdom is a small coastal fishing village.

Yang Kaifu woke up to the sound of his wife's creaking weaving, reached out and picked up a coarse cloth short coat on the bedside, put it on his body skillfully, stood up and walked to his wife, and said softly, "Don't be too tired, don't be too tired, the money borrowed from the government at home is almost over, and you don't have to get up so early in the morning in the future." ”

"yes, I know." The woman replied softly, turned her head to look at the three sleeping children, and said softly, "Mi Tao is good and put it in the pot, you go and make a fire, make a meal and then wake up the boss, he has lost a lot of weight recently, let him sleep more." ”

"The test results of the school are coming down, and if the boss has good grades, the family will be ready to prepare the tuition for the boss to go to the pre-university department."

Didn't go to the fire to cook according to his wife's instructions, mentioning his eldest son, Yang Kaifu frowned slightly.

"Boss, you still want the boss to go to college prep?"

Hearing her husband's words, the woman stopped what she was doing and asked.

"The ancestors of the Yang family have not been able to read for three generations, and the eldest has been studying for a few years, and it would be a pity if he couldn't get into the pre-university department."

"In charge, you also know your son's ability, the eldest Kaimeng reads late, his reading foundation is not as good as other students, he has to read until late every day when he comes back from school, his son has tried his best to study, if he does well, you follow his wishes, let him apply for the Naval Military Academy, don't embarrass him anymore."

"Alas, listen to you this time, if the boss passes the score of the Naval Military Academy, let him apply for the Navy."

Knowing his son Mo Ruo's mother, his wife knows his son's thoughts better than herself, and the eldest son is fifteen years old after the New Year, and has his own opinions, as his father, although Yang Kaifu wants his son to go to college preparatory department according to his own heart, but the eldest son is struggling to study, and he insists on letting him apply for college preparatory department, and he may not be able to graduate successfully during the preparatory department, therefore, after a difficult choice in his heart, Yang Kaifu decided to respect his son's opinion and agreed to him to apply for the Naval Military Academy. ……

In the middle of the day, the bright sun shines on the slightly undulating sea, waving layers of golden light.

On the golden light of the sea, hundreds of ships, large and small, were scattered, each slowly moving in different directions.

Most of the boats in the offshore waters are wooden fishing boats with a tonnage of no more than 500 tons, and a small number of these wooden fishing boats are small fishing boats built by local civilian shipyards in the Han Kingdom, and most of them are merchant ships captured by the Wehrmacht at the beginning, and sold to Chinese fishermen who immigrated to the Han Kingdom after being disposed of at a low price.

There are no particularly large fishing grounds on the southern Atlantic coast of South America, but there are relatively rich fishery resources in the sea area of thousands of miles from southern Brazil to the northern coast of Argentina.

Yang Kaifu was originally an ordinary fisherman on the coast of Fujian Province, after immigrating to the Han Kingdom, according to the number of people in a family of three, Yang Kaifu's family was allocated 60 acres of land, but two years later, his wife added two more children to him. Under the influence of the Han government and more than a dozen retired soldier neighbors around him, Yang Kaifu thought that sixty acres of land should be divided into three sons, and each son could only be divided into twenty acres of land, and the eldest son also had to pay a part of the tuition fee every year when he entered school, and the family's expenses were difficult to maintain only by the income from farming, so Yang Kaifu moved the idea of continuing to be a fisherman, and through the guarantee of several familiar neighbors in the town, he borrowed money from the government to buy a small wooden boat, and then fished on the beach for more than two years. Excluding the cost of his eldest son's school attendance and the family's expenses, Yang Kaifu repaid 90 percent of the money owed to the government, and the rest of the money could be repaid in two or three months according to his usual fishing volume.

The increasingly prosperous days gave Yang Kaifu the confidence and enthusiasm to work hard to support his family, and in the vast sea, Yang Kaifu and the large group of fishing boats separated and headed towards a sea area with fewer fishing boats.

"Dad, the net is moving!"

Yang Kaifu's eldest son, Yang Guangzong, saw the fishing nets under the boat shaking violently, and reminded loudly.

"Don't move with the oar, I'll pull the net!"

Yang Kaifu handed over the boat to his son, walked sideways to the bow of the fishing net, supported his body with both feet, and pulled the fishing net to the boat with both hands.

"Boss, the hull is shaking too much, fix the oars on both sides of the bow to stabilize the hull!"

"." Yang Guangzong replied, skillfully checking the two oars in the grooves on both sides of the bow, and after the oars were fixed, the vibration amplitude of the hull gradually decreased a lot.

After completing the work arranged by his father, Yang Guangzong saw that several big fish in the fishing net were still rushing around, quickly picked up the harpoon placed in the middle of the cabin, and came to the fishing net in three or two steps, just when he was about to stab the harpoon at the big fish as usual, Yang Kaifu's voice sounded in time, "Boss, you want to live, don't stab them to death!" ”

"Got it." Yang Guangzong quickly put away the harpoon, and after the harpoon was placed, he immediately came to his father's side and helped him put away the fishing net.

The strength of the several large fish in the fishing net was gradually consumed in the collision with the fishing net, and after more than an hour, the sea fish, which were no longer moving violently, were wrapped in the fishing net and pulled into the cabin.

"Boss, you see these two fish are big tuna, the largest I estimate that it weighs 200 catties, and the smaller one has more than 200 catties."

Yang Kaifu was lying on the cabin, his body soaked in sweat, and he panted.

"Dad, how much can this boat of fish sell?"

Although his body was very tired, seeing a boatload of fish and the two larger tuna, Yang Guangzong asked with joy on his face.

"Hehe, ordinary tuna is a pound of silver, good quality tuna is two taels of silver and a pound, the two tuna we caught this time, the big one is bluefin tuna, you see its belly is very big, this kind of tuna is called pot-bellied tuna, the price is higher, a pound of tuna costs three taels of silver, this tuna alone can be sold for six or seven hundred taels of silver, and the smaller one can also be sold for more than a hundred taels of silver. When this boatload of fish is sold, we can get more than seven or eight hundred taels of silver. ”

Yang Kaifu said happily.

"Dad, can we pay off the money we owe to the government!" Yang Guangzong asked happily.

"Ten taels of silver can be exchanged for eighteen Han Yuan, our family owes the government six hundred Han Yuan, and after the eight hundred taels of silver are repaid, there is still more than half left."

The Han Yuan was the legal tender of the Han Dynasty and was officially issued in 1877 to replace silver.

After the gold treasure obtained from Peru was exhausted, Li Mingyuan ventured to send people into India disguised as a black tea merchant to find the treasures of the famous Padmanaba Swami Temple.

India had all fallen into the hands of the British at this time, and it was very risky to send his men into India to search for treasure, but in 1877, the Peruvian treasure was exhausted, and the establishment of Han's own monetary policy could not be postponed, so as a last resort, Li Mingyuan first announced that Han would implement a gold standard monetary policy, stipulating that one Han Yuan was equivalent to one gram of gold, and the people who owned Han Yuan could go to the designated branch of the National Bank to exchange the equivalent value of gold with the Han Yuan currency in their hands. At the same time, silver was allowed to circulate as a transitional currency for five years, and after five years, ordinary people could exchange the exchange ratio of silver to gold for Han Yuan.

With the location provided by Li Mingyuan and the reputation of the Padmanaba Swami Temple in India, it was not difficult to find the treasure of the Padmanaba Swami Temple, but it was difficult to evade the British and transport the treasure to the Han Kingdom.

After finding the treasure in the basement of the Padmanaba Swamy Temple, the treasure hunting team first secretly packed up the gold and treasures in the basement at night and shipped them out in batches, and then scattered the treasures in tea, coal and other goods under the cover of hired white merchants and smuggled them out of the country, and finally arrived in the Han Kingdom at the end of 1877.

Although the value of the treasure of the Padmanaba Swamy Temple is not as valuable as the treasure found by Li Mingyuan in Peru, it is also worth a lot.

After looting the six basements of the temple and selling some unimportant diamonds, jewelry, and ornaments, a total of 25 tons of gold were obtained.

25 tons of gold were placed in the National Bank of Han as a reserve, and those precious treasures that were not sold were sent to the palace by the officials, and the rest were put into the Ministry of Finance as reserve funds for the development of the Han State.

Searching for treasure is a trick to obtain wealth, Li Ming knows in his heart that searching for treasure is not a long-term solution, but as the ruler of the country, in order for the Han State to develop and grow smoothly, he also has to use various methods to obtain funds.

Increasing 25 tons of gold, the treasury of the National Bank of Han together with the original remaining gold, the total gold reserves reached 30 tons, relying on 30 tons of gold reserves, the monetary policy of the Han State was gradually accepted by the common people after a year of implementation, in addition to still using silver as the exchange currency, more and more people used Han Yuan banknotes to buy goods.

And because Western countries use the gold standard, after the Han Yuan is pegged to gold, the currency exchange rate between the Han Yuan and Western countries has also stabilized, such as a pound is equivalent to 7.3 grams of gold, so the exchange rate between the Han Yuan and the British pound is

1 pound = 7.3 Chinese won, the same exchange rate between Han and several other major national currencies can also be settled in gold, 1 franc = 0.29 Chinese won, 1 US dollar = 1.5 Chinese won, 1 German gold mark = 10 German marks = 3.58 Chinese won, 1 ruble = 0.77 Chinese won.