"Woo!!"

The Spring Festival of the ninth year of Chongzhen is a big festival for the entire Chinese nation, and almost most places in the land of China are preparing for this festival, only here is the Central Research and Development Institute of Bengang County, and there has been no action until now.

An earth-shattering whistling sound is something that has often happened in the valley where the R&D Institute is located these days, and the staff in the R&D Institute are not surprised by this.

After more than a year of improvement work, Chengcai's research team finally made a qualitative leap in the steam train, and at this time, the locomotive that slowly moved with the roaring sound was no longer the bulky and fat appearance that Li Tianyang saw at the beginning, but was closer to the slender and slender figure of the train in later generations.

"Now this track is no longer enough to meet the operation of the train, Xiao Wu, you go and write an application to apply for the extension of the track!"

Dean Chen Cai, who is also the leader of the train research and development team, looked at the steam train that was slowly moving and slowly accelerating, looked at the track that was gradually coming to an end with dissatisfaction, and turned back to a staff member and said.

"Yes!"

Because of his excellent grades, flexible brain and full of imagination, he was assigned to the R&D Institute, but Wu Yanfan looked at the behemoth slowly driving in front of him with obsessive eyes, and replied obsessively.

"How is the speed measurement?"

Chen Cai shook his head, noncommittal to the demeanor of the young man behind him, and then asked the colleague on the other side who was holding a pen and calculating quickly.

"The top speed is 48 miles per hour." The estimator put down his pen and replied after carefully reviewing it a few times: "But we don't think this speed is the fastest speed of this steam car, and there is still room for exploration." ”

"Well, I think so too, or this track is a little shorter!" Dean Chen Cai nodded in agreement with the other party's opinion: "But I have already asked Xiao Wu to apply for it, and I am ready to expand the length of this track." ”

The application was not delayed because of Wu Yanfan's seemingly distracted expression, and after returning to the laboratory, Wu Yanfan submitted the application to the review department of the R&D Institute as soon as possible, and finally sent it to Li Tianyang due to too many materials and funds involved.

"That's right, Chen Cai's research and development speed is still quite fast!" Li Tianyang has never stopped paying attention to steam trains, but now he will not be as surprised as before, as long as the train prototype has been successful, these subsequent improvements have always been a matter of course.

"Approved!!"

Vermilion was issued in the signature of this application, and then Li Tianyang's own signature and his own seal were added, and under the simple operation, it meant that there was an expenditure of tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Fortunately, Li Tianyang intercepted a lot of money from these rich people of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce before, although they also built a lot of factories and workshops in Hongmen last year and began to manufacture many novel products, but most of the funds were still saved.

Therefore, at this stage, Dihongmen is still abundantly funded, and Li Tianyang will not be stingy with Chen Cai and Yang Zhi's R&D investment.

Moreover, today's Nanyang Money Village can be regarded as a cornucopia behind Hongmen, and when it is really inconvenient to have capital turnover, Hongmen can also borrow hundreds of thousands of taels of silver through the money bank to meet various expenses.

Through the 1:1 pledge of the savings of Nanyang Bank, Hongmen Bengang Mint will print the banknotes from the largest ten yuan to the smallest one cent printed by the new printing technology and spread to the economic and financial activities of the entire Dayuan Island.

In the past, Hongmen had implemented a short-term money ticket system, and then with the easing of Hongmen's economy, it was given up, and now, finally the time is ripe, Hongmen even launched paper money.

People who have studied economics know that paper money is actually a kind of credit currency, compared with real money and silver money, the value of paper money itself is actually very cheap, but because of the existence of Hongmen, paper money has not had many doubts, and it has been accepted by the people on Dayuan Island.

Although, there are still a lot of people at the beginning, do not accept the existence of compromise banknotes, entrusted the Ming Dynasty treasure money "Fu", many people from the Ming Dynasty are still suspicious of the paper money.

With the full circulation of paper money in Hongmen in terms of taxation and salary, Nanyang Qianzhuang, as the only exchange agency on the island, unconditionally exchanged real money and silver to the people who owned paper money, and the final result was that the majority of people gave in and began to accept the use of paper money by Binhai.

This is also Li Tianyang's shallow economic knowledge, so that at the beginning of the issuance of banknotes, he cautiously did not print too much, according to the amount of money saved by the people on Dayuan Island and the actual amount of circulation, according to an estimate, in the end only printed no more than 500,000 yuan of banknotes, in exchange for 500,000 taels of silver transported from Nanyang Bank.

However, there are still a lot of advantages of paper money compared with silver money, one is that the paper money is light in weight and easy to keep in daily life transactions, compared with heavy silver, shopping and other activities to the aftermath, no longer need to carry a large bag of silver out; Second, the people no longer have to worry about those lawbreakers mixing other sundries with the money, and there are problems such as insufficient amount of money!

Of course, for Hongmen, it also has other advantages, such as the printing cost is much lower than the cost of coinage, and at the same time, it can be pledged through silver money, so that Hongmen has a large amount of liquid money in his hands and so on.

All this has made Hongmen now more economically prosperous than ever before.

The issuance of the application led to a brief wave of commotion in the entire Hongmen system: a large number of local labor recruitment letters were posted in the various neighborhood committees under the jurisdiction of Hongmen, and a large number of raw materials such as steel and cement, which had been hoarded for a long time, were continuously transported to Bengang.

Li Tianyang's heart is big, although the steam train has not yet been officially finalized, but the track of the steam train actually has a standard formula, since now Chen Cai and they want to lengthen the length of the track, then Li Tianyang simply decided to open a rail connecting Bengang to Da'an Port, which can be regarded as opening the road for the successful development of the steam train in advance.

This is a fact that even Chen Cai and they can't believe it, they didn't expect that Li Tianyang, the leader, is even stronger than them, the research and development personnel, the confidence in the steam train, in the case of the steam train has not been fully developed, he actually took the first step to plan a road for the train.

(End of chapter)