c_t; In this way, after the signing of the contract between the German legation and the Mukden General's Palace, various affairs began to be rolled out. （ ）

First of all, the Krupp Group mobilized a large number of engineers and miners and began to enter the mine for preliminary exploration work.

Tang Kaijia, who was in charge of the mining work, and Liang Dunyan, who was in charge of the economy, struggled to persuade the peasants in the mine to move out, and they were afraid that if they acted too radically, they would provoke a popular uprising, which was really difficult to start.

In the end, Zhang Yi was ruthless and issued an order, as long as the residents of the mine were willing to move out, then each household would not live in a hundred taels of silver, and at the same time, in the new place of residence, ten acres of fertile land would be allocated for the farmers to resettle.

The General's Mansion immediately came forward and directly purchased 1,000 acres of land in Benxi, as the headquarters and factory of the coal and steel industry, and began to build the factory area according to the suggestion of German engineers.

At this time, after more than a month of preparation, Fengtian Bank finally opened, Liang Dunyan was directly appointed as the first president, Qiao Zhiyong was elected as the chairman of the bank, and Fengtian Bank was officially opened to the public.

When Qiao Zhiyong asked Zhang Yi for that gift, Zhang Yi laughed and deposited all the 180 million German marks loaned by the German government to the Fengtian General's Mansion into Fengtian Bank, and said: "Qiao Lao, from now on, Fengtian Bank is the central bank of our Fengtian General's Mansion, and all the official banks are handed over to Fengtian Bank as an agent, which is a loan of 58 million taels of silver, all of which are handed over to Fengtian Bank for processing. We can sweep the entire Qing Dynasty, and any money bank or ticket number is not our opponent, even if the Western Bank enters China in the future, it will be difficult for me to do anything! ”

Qiao Zhiyong was shocked, this Jianzhi actually got such a large sum of money without moving. This is close to a whole year's tax revenue of the imperial court, and with this silver. There will never be any problems with Fengtian Bank again, and you can develop the bank as you like, without worrying about any competition, Xiyang Bank? Come on, the old man is not a fuel-efficient lamp!!

Zhang Yi continued: "Elder Qiao, the next thing is to prepare for the issuance of silver dollars nationwide, we are currently trying it out in Fengtian, and all transactions within Fengtian must be traded in silver dollars, and all officials are paid." Commercial trading, all the implementation of silver dollars, with the strong Fengtian Bank as the backing, we can definitely be invincible! ”

Qiao Zhiyong nodded excitedly and replied, "Okay, Jianzhi, I'll make relevant preparations." The construction of a mint and the establishment of a silver exchange business are only at the level of the government, and if you insist on it, it will fall on you. ”

Zhang Yi replied: "Old Qiao, the matter of building a bank. Some time ago, I had already declared to the imperial court, and it happened that Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, also had this intention, and with the help of Lord Zhongtang behind his back, the emperor and Lafayette had already obtained the permission of the emperor, and then there was the matter of minting silver dollars, which was only a trial now, and we didn't need to be high-profile. When our scale expands, the silver dollar circulates in the customs, it will naturally come naturally, don't worry about it, just in the promotion, but also take advantage of your Jin merchants, Jin merchant ticket numbers all over the world, we can start from the Jin merchant ticket number, Shengjing General's Mansion as a guarantee, I believe it won't take long, we can really do the world! ”

Qiao Zhiyong smiled excitedly: "Jianzhi, there is absolutely no problem with this, several owners who have invested in Fengtian Bank are all pivotal roles in Shanxi's ticket number, as long as we unite to promote the circulation of silver dollars, it is a trivial matter, haha, my dream of connecting the world is finally going to be achieved through Jianzhi's platform!" ”

Zhang Yi continued: "Qiao Lao, when Liang Dunyan stayed in the United States, he studied economics, and he was proficient in the banking industry, but it is not enough to rely on him alone, we must have more financial talents to grow up. ”

Qiao Zhiyong's face was solemn, and he said: "Jianzhi, don't worry about this matter, I have already arranged it, the first batch of about fifty or sixty people, led by Yingxia personally to study in England and France, although Yingxia is young, but she has followed me to walk the world for many years, she is quite stable, and she will not make a mistake!" ”

Zhang Yi laughed and said, "Okay, then I will sit with Qiao Gong and wait for the growth of Fengtian Bank." ”

With a large amount of money as the backing, Fengtian Bank took the lead in Fengtian state capitals, set up bank branches, through the assistance of Zhang Yi's General Mansion, and Liang Dunyan, Zhang Yi's very favored talent in charge, Fengtian Bank began to operate in a short period of time, at this time coincided with the Guannei many displaced people and businessmen came to Fengtian to pan for gold, saw the door of the businessmen have borrowed money, began to start a business in Fengtian, for a time all kinds of waste is prosperous, Fengtian fell into a thriving situation.

Zhang Yi repeatedly inspected in Fengtian and inspected the people's conditions, only more than three months, the whole province of Fengtian has completely changed, and now the time has reached the early summer, and the peasants who have poured into Fengtian from the Guannai have exceeded 400,000 households, nearly 1.2 million people, under the auspices of the Agricultural Reclamation Bureau, they have opened up wasteland and farmed, and some have entered the various factories and mines in Fengtian, and at the same time, there are many farmers who have continuously poured into Fengtian.

At the same time, under the tax-free policy of the Shengjing General's Mansion, merchants in the customs also rushed to Mukden to start doing business, and some even directly moved their enterprises from the customs to Mukden as a whole.

With so many people pouring in at once, the supply of food and daily necessities in Mukden immediately felt tight.

Tang Shaoyi sensitively discovered this problem, and immediately contacted the big grain merchants in Shanxi to buy a large number of grain materials from the Guannei into Mukden, and then the Agricultural Reclamation Bureau came forward to buy them, and in the name of subsidies and relief, they were distributed one after another, such a generous policy of benefiting the people made more peasants pour in from the Guannai, and sometimes, tens of thousands of people entered Mukden in one day, which once caused social unrest in the neighboring provinces of Guannai.

It was at such a moment that something happened in Mukden.

In the early summer, Zhang Yi had just returned to the General's Mansion after attending the completion ceremony of the Martial Arts Academy, when suddenly, Mo Ru ran in from outside, sweating profusely, and said, "Instructor, it's broken, something happened." ”

Zhang Yi looked at Mo Ru, who was sweating profusely, and asked, "What's wrong, what's wrong?" (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

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