Jiang Nanqi tightened his tweed coat and jumped onto the simple wooden dock of Shengjie Fort with his entourage. Today's wind is a bit strong, and the temperature has plummeted to about 13 or 4 degrees, which indicates the arrival of late autumn.

Located on the banks of the Pilatini River, the Victor Fort is quite convenient. The river is wide and abundant in the middle and lower reaches of the river, and after the dredging of the few shoals in the river channel by the dredger "Qingtangjun No. 4", the whole river is now capable of navigating small steamboats, which is crucial for the construction of the settlement.

The boat Jiang Nanqi took was a 72-ton inland steamboat that transported wheat here. Less than a year after the establishment of the castle, according to state policy, the inhabitants of the castle were given a monthly allowance of 3o catties of wheat and two pickled fish per adult - a figure that would be halved in the second year - and all food and supplies were transported by guò river steamboat.

As the newly appointed executive vice president of the South Duck Lake District Circuit Court, Jiang Nanqi began to move his office to Shengjie Fort this month, where he will stay for two months to concentrate on official business. Some cases in other settlements appealed to the district court were also planned in advance to be sent to Shengjiebao to be heard by Jiang Nanqi.

As a deputy regional-level official, Jiang Nanqi's arrival naturally attracted the attention of local officials. However, these veterans and cadres who were born as students in the Corps Fort were very busy, so they only said hello to Jiang Nanqi briefly, and after sending someone to receive the supplies, they left the dock and continued to organize the work. For these new cadres, there is not much substantive benefit from being close to the superior, after all, the only criterion for the superiors to evaluate them is still the completion process and efficiency of the work assigned to them. The East Coast Republic of China has not been established for a long time, and the atmosphere is still very simple, and everyone is still conducting the assessment with real guns and ammunition, and there is no sloppiness at all.

Jiang Nanqi was joined by about 100 immigrants from Scotland, all of whom had been illegally smuggled into the East Coast from Brazil, all of whom had been doing odd jobs in the Republic for one to two years. They can speak a little Chinese, and some of them can also do a little bit of craftsmanship. At present, they have all obtained official identification and are already considered official residents of the Eastern Republic of China. They were accompanied by more than twenty craftsmen, such as stonemasons, winemakers, tailors, tanners, coopers, weavers, etc.

Some of them immigrated to the East Coast on their own initiative, but most of them were recruited by the East Coast by various means in the old 6 Tong Guò, and in the East Coast, where even fish hooks had to be imported from the outside world, Tong Guò recruited some craftsmen to the East Coast to make all kinds of daily necessities and even industrial and agricultural supplies. It's a great deal. After all, scavenging some bits and pieces of daily necessities from the old Big 6 is not only expensive, but also time-consuming and laborious, and very troublesome. These things were limited in quantity or there was a lack of specialized personnel, and the East Coast was often unable to produce them themselves, so importing large quantities of artisans from Europe was a very good way to do so.

On the dock, except for the boat that Jiang Nanqi was on. There are also two 35-ton paddle steamers that have been eliminated by inland waterway transport companies. The two boats seem to have been bought by private individuals, and the six large characters "Downwind Transport Company" were painted with lime water on the side of the ship. Regarding the origin of this company, Jiang Nanqi is still very clear, and its main shareholders are still the leaders of Zhenhai Shipyard. At the beginning, they raised funds to start this transportation company, but it caused a lot of turmoil in China, and finally reluctantly got everyone's tacit approval after agreeing to the East Coast Company to take a 3o% stake.

After the company was founded, Tongguò bought old paddle steamers that had been discarded by inland waterway transport companies and poached the walls of state-owned enterprises (sailors and captains) at high prices. Started shipping business in China. And thanks to the increasingly huge domestic transportation demand, the company's profits are still quite good. The two small-tonnage paddle steamers, both of the company's steamboats, are moored at the dock, where dock workers carry bags of corn neatly into the hold.

In the open space by the dock, Zhu Heng and Li Qun were taking two illegal immigrants from England to inspect bags of corn they had purchased. They checked very carefully and very seriously, after all, it was their own business, could they not care? After each batch is checked. Zhu Heng took out a few bank acceptance bills from his hand and handed them to the peasants who sold grain. The peasants did not hold on to these "scraps of paper" for long after they got them, and they, like the Europeans, did not trust these acceptance bills in the extreme, so they would run to the township government with them as quickly as possible and ask for the purchase of beef cattle.

The officials at Fort Victory never thought of it. It is unbelievable that someone would get so many bank acceptance bills (more than 4,000 yuan) at once and buy things in their new land in the middle of nowhere. The merchant named Zhu Heng was really a good deal, and he exchanged the banker's acceptance draft in hand for corn. The peasants who then sold the grain and obtained the bills of exchange soon took these bills and demanded that they be exchanged for beef cattle.

The officials of the township government were also a little dumbfounded when they saw this situation, and the one-year bank acceptance bill, which the state had racked its brains to alleviate the money shortage and increase the money stock in circulation, returned to the government in a dramatic way in less than two months. In the process, the government's "banknotes" returned to their hands at a lightning speed, and the two speculative businessmen seemed to have made a fortune (the total profit was more than 600 yuan, and the profit margin was 15%).

However, in order to maintain the authority of the state, the officials of Shengjiebao could not but recognize the validity of the banker's acceptance drafts brought by the peasants, so they soon sold 600 cattle and harvested more than 4,200 yuan in bills. But they were obviously very dissatisfied with the two speculative businessmen, one big and one small, so just now, when an official was on the dock, he was already asking Jiang Nanqi bluntly whether he could try and send the two businessmen to prison for the crime of "speculation".

Jiang Nanqi rightfully vetoed the official's suggestion, and warned these officials with a single brain in a stern tone: The country is currently experiencing a strict money shortage, and the shortage of circulating currency in the market has greatly affected all aspects of the national economy. In the case of the extreme shortage of precious metals such as gold and silver in the Ministry of Finance, it seems that the currency needed to maintain the normal operation of the economy can only be replenished by paper money. The one-year bank acceptance bill that the state is currently implementing is obviously a prelude and warm-up for the banknote, and perhaps after a few years, more than ten years or even decades, when the public has begun to accept paper money to a certain extent, the East Coast government can fully implement paper money as the only legal currency in the country. As for gold and silver, they can be bought and sold as commodities, in short, they can no longer be stored as currency.

Jiang Nanqi also tactfully told the officials of Shengjiebao that not only could they not take down Zhu Heng and Li Qun for various reasons, but on the contrary, they had to greatly publicize the deeds of these two people and publicize the legitimacy and authority of the banker's acceptance bill from the side. After all, what the two of them are currently doing is actually of positive significance for the implementation and circulation of bank acceptance bills. If this kind of banknote cannot be recycled and can only be circulated in the private sector, then it will be repeatedly depreciated and eventually disgusted by everyone and completely withdrawn from the circulation field. Of course, the one-year bank acceptance bill of the East Coast Government Bank is not a predatory tool in the nature of a military bill that is not only collected, so this kind of "paper money" township government must recognize and must also accept it!

Zhu Heng and Li Qun, two bold speculative businessmen, finally received a total of nearly 200 tons of corn at Shengjiebao, which was enough for the two 35-ton inland river transport ships to transport three round-trips. The purchase price of these 200 tons of corn is around 21 yuan/ton, but after it is shipped to Luoqia Port, it can be sold to the Dutch for 26-27 yuan/ton. If you remove some labor, transportation, taxes and other expenses, it is not a problem to earn 3-4 yuan per ton of corn, and the net profit should be about 15%, which is quite good. And if everyone learns that the large number of bank acceptance bills held by these two people are actually purchased by them in various settlements at a price lower than the face value of seven or eight percent, I am afraid that they will vomit blood even more.

But this is basically a one-shot deal, and this is the opportunity. When the circulation of bank acceptance bills in the domestic market becomes clearer and clearer, and their value and authority will be recognized by people, then who will sell the so-called "pieces of paper" they have on hand to others cheaply? Something simply impossible!

Therefore, after doing this vote, Zhu Heng and the others are not ready to continue to engage in this kind of trick. They decided to reinvest the large amount of money they had received from selling grain to the Dutch to La Plata, where they would buy the cattle of the Spaniards they had plundered, and then find a way to sell them back to their home countries. Nowadays, the demand for livestock in China is so hot that even if you can't buy enough beef cattle, you can just buy some goats and sheep from those Klandians and sell them back home! After all, the huge livestock shortfall created by the promotion of the three-crop rotation system has made it clear that the livestock trade is definitely not a loss.

After beating some of the officials of Shengjiebao, Jiang Nanqi also entered his office with his entourage, and then opened the files brought over one by one and began to analyze and deal with the case.

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