"We know about Qianzhuang, but what does this piece of paper given by the government have to do with Qianzhuang?" The old man hesitated for a moment and asked again.

"Where's the bank's credit?" Zhang Qiang asked everyone.

At this time, there were already a lot of people gathered on the street, Zhang Qiang roughly estimated, there were about 1,000 people, some buying and selling grain, some neighbors near the street, there were also passing vendors, scholars, militiamen, and patrol guards, as well as some rich people sitting in sedan chairs but blocked at the intersection.

Although the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army has been divided into fields, entered the household, and the entry and robbery of Zheng Cai pirates, Zhang Qiang has repeatedly purged and tested those squires who tried to rebel against him, Haoqiang, and even the relics of the Ming Dynasty and the officials of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and even learned from our party to carry out a fierce campaign to fight the local tyrants and divide the land, and won a lot of people's hearts.

The grain merchant said: "The credit of the money village is accumulated over decades, everyone saves money with them, and then withdraws money elsewhere, they collect storage fees, and the villagers in the big hometown are business partners, and this friendship can not be accumulated in a day or two." ”

"Then you don't believe in the government?" Zhang Qiang asked.

"It's—" Many people fell silent.

Zhang Qiang looked at them and said angrily: "I don't care what happens to the government, just like your father and mother beat and scolds you every day, but you don't dare to fight back, because it is your father and mother, and you are not filial if you fight back, but in the place under the jurisdiction of the Jinhua Righteous Army, where the Jinhua Righteous Army is sorry for you?" ”

"The Jinhua Righteous Army dragged you out of the war, gave you clothes, food, divided the fields for you, gave you a stable life without war, and countless soldiers, with their flesh and blood, built a great wall of steel for you, don't you ——, grateful to them?"

Zhang Qiang took a breath after speaking, and looked at the crowd with majestic eyes.

At this time, there were more people at the back of the crowd, which were officials from the Governor's Palace, officials from the Jinhua Righteous Army, and some cavalry musketeers.

I don't know when there were many people squatting on the rubble on both sides of the street, holding bowls, while eating, while looking at the men here, and even some women climbed up to the roof to look at this place.

No one responded.

Zhang Qiang is a little discouraged, this is the people in his territory, they don't know gratitude, maybe the government here has the ability to drive away the Qing army, the Qing army does not dare to break in, or has no ability to break in, this is a paradise to escape the war, here is like an underground bunker poured with steel and concrete, people know that the bomb can't be blown here, but they don't want to think about who built it, who should be grateful.

This is not good, although it is the duty of the soldiers to fight against the enemy, and it is the responsibility of the government to manage the people and give the people a stable place, and it is also their own job, but if you don't say it, if you don't let them know and don't be grateful, then you are raising a group of white-eyed wolves, that is, Shengmi En's fight against Mi Qiu, they feel that this is what they should enjoy, and never know that these things should be actively cared for and actively participated in.

It's a disgusting cycle, and Zhang Qiang will never let this happen in his territory, he is the governor here.

Do good deeds without leaving a name, that's Lei Feng, not him.

"And those who came from other places, or who hid in times of war, and waited for the war to stop, but came back to enjoy the war, touch your conscience, what have you done to protect this place?"

didn't wait for people to be aggrieved and wanted to defend themselves.

Zhang Qiang continued to shout angrily: "Don't tell me that you pay taxes, you should enjoy these, then, looking at it this way, should you make up for the taxes that people paid in the past to build this place and protect this place?" ”

"We're not going to let that happen, but I told you before, we don't have any money, and we need you to pay for part of it, yes—just a part, these pieces of paper (he took out the food stamps of the Jinhua Yijun seal from his pocket), that's the price I made you pay, and we're not saying that we're going to loot your money from you, but that we're telling you that from now on, these things are money—"

"The credit of this money, the Jinhua Righteous Army guarantees the lives of his 70,000 soldiers, and guarantees all the property of the Jinhua Righteous Army, if the Jinhua Righteous Army does not honor it one day, these pieces of paper cannot be exchanged for silver, you can move all the things from the government, yes the government, here the Jinhua Righteous Army is the official government, here is different from the Ming Dynasty, and the court of the emperors of the Southern Ming Dynasty is different, here, we guarantee your personal safety, and guarantee the credit of these money."

Zhang Qiang had a chance to breathe, and Ma Ying asked weakly, "My lord, according to what you say, when we leave the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army, can we take these pieces of paper and exchange them with you for silver?" ”

"Yes, you can see the ticket as soon as you see it, you can see this department under the Food Bureau as a money bank run by the Jinhua Yijun government, but this money bank has the right to print these banknotes, just like the Ming Dynasty and the Tartar court have the right to mint copper coins, we just take back these rights on the territory we rule, and we run it ourselves."

A big man who seemed to be in the dust asked, "My lord, do you mean that we don't want it, we have to ask for it, and if we don't exchange it, we have to exchange it?" ”

Zhang Qiang said: "Yes, this is a mandatory regulation, you must use grain stamps on the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army, grain stamps can be exchanged for copper coins and gold and silver equal to the face of the ticket, and can also be exchanged for grain at market prices, these things are guaranteed to be exchanged with grain and gold and silver owned by the government, you leave our territory, we will exchange a lot of gold and silver for the gold and silver you have, but in the territory, if anyone still uses gold and silver or even physical transactions when trading, then, I'm sorry, there is still room in our cell." , go in, and if you don't die, you have to shed your skin. It depends on whether your bones are hard or not. ”

Zhang Qiang didn't have time to educate these people, in the land of China, coercive things are often more useful than words, disobedience, water cuts, electricity cuts, road cuts, cut off his social relations, let him go to a dead end, this is the best way to deal with him, to let them develop discipline and obedience.

This may be because China has been a turtle for 5,000 years, and it has no blood, just like a stallion that has been castrated, once it is castrated, it has no temperament, and it can only obey and be ridden.

A wealthy man who looked like a rich man wearing silk and satin shouted in the distance, "My lord, can you open a private bank?" ”