The Japanese did not make a sharp decision now, and Chen Ming felt that Tokugawa Isaharu might have been intimidated by him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

-- The Ezo people are also capable of establishing a country.

If the Ezo people really established a state with the support of Chen Han, Japan would be in big trouble. It was not a 'trivial matter' such as the emperor's name change and Kyushu's name change, but it made Japan really suffer a huge loss in substance, and it was no longer a humiliation of dignity.

But to be able to add so much trouble to Japan, Chen Ming felt so happy in his heart. He immediately ordered Tang Feipeng to prepare manpower in Japan and began to recruit a large number of impoverished Japanese samurai, some of whom would undergo a period of adaptation training in Taiwan to tropical climate and rainforest warfare, and then send them to the South Seas to deal with the natives in Malay and Borneo who did not know whether they were alive or dead.

Chen Ming would equip them with very good armaments, flintlock pistols, katanas, and grenades, and give them much more material treatment than in Japan, so he would raise the Japanese as a dozen. And they will be hung in front of their mouths like carrots with better treatment, and eventually turn these Japanese into loyal wolfdogs!

Because with Chen Han's current strength in Japan, he can spread rumors in Japan on a large scale after these security soldiers have gained a little benefit, which will attract more poor lower-level samurai to join the security forces and willingly become thugs; It will also make many Japanese who claim to be real samurai regard them as different and deeply hate, and strengthen the conflict between the two sides. When this contradiction accumulates little by little and is finally detonated, even Chen Ming can't say what will become of Japan in the end.

He's happy anyway.

In May of this year, the merchant ships that arrived from Europe one after another brought a lot of good things to Chen Han. Chen Ming's most important thing was the cannon boring machine invented by the Englishman John Wilkinson, which was not patented by Wilkinson when it was purchased by the British East India Company.

The appearance of this boring machine really solves the trouble of gun chamber processing, and also solves the problem of steam engine processing cylinder block! It plays an extremely important role for the Fu Han army. If this invention was in Chen Ming's hands alone, no matter how much money an outsider used, he would not let go of a finger.

But the British are different, although they are aware of the significance of this invention, they are more interested in profit. Robert and his collaborator sent the machine to the far east, and they marked the price of three thousand silver dollars for two barrel boring machines. But Chen Ming was happy to sleep that night.

With this cannon barrel boring machine, first of all, in the cannon casting, the Fu Han army can leave the main road of iron mold casting. The advent of the boring machine means the emergence of a new and brighter avenue.

For cannons of the same size, the barrel cut out of a boring machine is one-sixth to one-fifth lighter than that of an iron mold cast, and the bore wall of the barrel is more flexible, compared to the iron mold gun, which is a little brittle and hard. With the addition of iron hoops, the boring machine cannon of the same specification can withstand at least 1,000 full-dose firing test shots. And the iron mold cannon only had seven or eight hundred times. [I can't find specific information, compiled]

It can be said that this barrel boring machine has immediately become the darling of the military since the performance of the processed cannon was seen by everyone in the military. The Metropolitan Governor's Office has approved the application of the military industry system to build 100 barrel boring machines as soon as possible!

This thing is the biggest and most important discovery in the Western technology category this year!

This is like a second-hand drilling machine brought by the French from Manila last winter, combined with the research of the Fu Han Army itself, which immediately brought the production and manufacture of flintlock barrels, which had just been accelerated, to a new level. In the past two years, Chen Han's flintlock pistol manufacturing speed has been on the highway, and the hydraulic drilling machine he researched made the Fuhan Army's flintlock pistol manufacturing from less than 50,000 in the beginning of the year to cross the threshold of 80,000, and this year has only passed more than half of the time, and the finished products of flintlock pistols, handcuffs, and rifled guns have exceeded 100,000 rods!

The tangible effect crushed the initial internal opposition, and those who held themselves proud and looked down on all foreign technologies had to bow their proud heads in the face of tangible results. And a few stubborn people, the only thing waiting for them is to go home and eat old rice.

Although a large part of the results of today's hydraulic drilling machines also belong to China, the Tai drilling machine from Europe also played a huge role in the advent of new machinery. No one can deny this.

"Quang Nam's arms can be sold to them as soon as possible. It's the same with Zheng Zhu's. The Xishan Army will lag behind! ”

With the debut of a large number of new guns, there are firearms that can be dealt with as many as they want. A batch of Portuguese cannons and flintlock pistols captured from the hands of the Qing army have been presented to Ryukyu by Chen Ming, and then the king of Ryukyu will personally come to Nanjing to pay tribute, and Chen Ming allowed it, and the time is set at the end of the year, just in Nanjing to attend Chen Ming's enthronement ceremony, and at the same time, the Naha port of Ryukyu is also fully open to Chen Han's sailors.

Another batch of guns and cannons captured from the Qing army were half sold and half given to the 'three heroes' in Langshan, and their task now is to weaken Beizheng as much as possible. And Quang Nam, that is, the territory of South Vietnam, although Chen Ming also has ambitions, South Vietnam is not as attractive to him as North Vietnam, and it is not so urgent and necessary. Because North Vietnam has been the land of China since the Qin and Han dynasties, that is, it was abandoned in the early middle and early Ming Dynasty. So, Lord Zheng was unlucky. Although Zheng Sen has always been very respectful to Chen Han.

In Chen Ming's future 'territory' design, Vietnam is to be devoured, Myanmar does not exist, Laos, which is not big and even weaker, is in a state of division, and there is no ability to resist at all, and it is very easy to take it. And Siam, the only remaining Siam among the three small tyrants in Indochina, Zheng Xin's ship is likely to capsize!

So far, the Fu Han army has only dug a coal field in Ha Long Bay, and there is no sign of looking out for the rest of the Indochina Peninsula, although the Fu Han army has secretly contacted the Malay Kedah Sultan to discuss the ownership of Penang Island and a series of conditions attached to it. But for the inland of the Indochina Peninsula, Chen Ming really didn't show a trace of interest. It is likely that Trung Shin of Siam will continue to open up with Myanmar on the one hand, and on the other hand, he will continue to devour the Namzhang, Luang Prabang, Vientiane and other countries after the division of Laos, as well as the Kingdom of Phnom Penh, that is, Cambodia. In the end, there was a conflict with the Xishan Army!

Chen Ming couldn't understand what these natives on the Indochina Peninsula were thinking? If your country is still unstable, your eyes will look outward, or you may feel that the country around you is too weak and the timing is too good, and you will lose money if you don't take the opportunity to take a bite. After the Burmese developed in the direction of Manipur and Bengal, they beat Siam fiercely. And Siam is also just a little bit better, began to point the finger at Laos and Cambodia, the same is true of the South Vietnamese monkeys, the historical Xishan Army just stabilized the situation, it can't wait to develop to the West, the front of the army is directed at Cambodia and Laos. It's also drunk!

Chen Ming's current approach is to support Guangnan Guo and Zheng Zhu while secretly making deals with the Xishan Army and Langshan, especially the latter, if there is no secret support from the Fu Han Army behind them, their small life will not be as nourishing as it is now.

Although Chen Jie and the other three knew that they were working hard for Chen Han now, and they had to leave their hometown because they opposed Chen Han before, in order to expand their own living space and survive and live, they also had to deal with a very orthodox 'Confucian' country.

Compared with the current Chen Han, the Northern Zheng under the rule of Zheng Sen is the purest Confucian world.

As for the three Ruan brothers of the Tay Son Army, they are now in the time of opening up, even if the arms arrive a little later, at most they will slow down their pace of attacking Quang Nam Kingdom, and it is impossible to give the Quang Nam Nguyen clan a chance to reverse.

"Arms deals with Siam are still settled in rice." Chen Ming thought about it for a while, but decided to keep the trade with Siam unchanged. It's not poor, but it's not very rich. Moreover, at this time, the development of Siam's mining industry was sluggish, and Chen Ming could not find anything to say from Siam.

This is the same as he knows that Luzon has a lot of copper mines, and the reserves are among the top in the world, but he just can't name a copper mine. Unlike the Hongji Coal Mine in Vietnam, you can remember the specific location, the type of coal, and so on.

For the entire Indochina Peninsula, Chen Ming has a general impression -- there are still a lot of minerals. But he can't say specifically, even if it's the jade old pit mine in Myanmar, he only knows a name.

Because the world of jade is too far away from him in his previous life.

After giving instructions briefly, Chen Ming picked up a report sent by Wang Huizu, which belonged to the bank. Trade Bank!

Since its establishment, this bank has been confined to the eastern coastal area, and has not carried out large-scale development inland, and among several state-owned banks, this bank has the best and healthiest capital and income.

Just a foreign gold and silver currency exchange fee makes it unstoppable, and this bank is based on foreign trade ports, and Chinese and foreign businessmen provide short-term and medium-term freight forwarders, as long as the other party can take something to mortgage, or have sufficient qualifications to guarantee, you can take away the currency you need from the commercial bank. The interest in the middle is not a small 1%, but a 5% start!

After several years of rapid development, the name of China Commercial Bank has spread throughout Europe, and even in the Americas. But this year, the speed of development of China Commercial Bank has suffered a serious decline.

Because the other three state-owned banks, such as the Bank of China, have begun to set foot in foreign trade cities after they have taken a breather, not to mention the establishment of two private banks. The situation of eating alone before the Commercial Bank has been completely broken!

Although several years of first-hand operation have made the Commercial Bank still occupy more than 70% of the entire port banking business in the first half of this year, many Chinese and foreign businessmen still habitually store their currency in the Commercial Bank, and then all the transaction costs in China are settled through the Commercial Bank, but the profits of the entire Commercial Bank are declining in a big dive.

In addition to handling fees, real estate, shares, and financial investment, the sources of profit of the commercial bank used to be the annual profit source of the commercial bank, for example, the two private banks had shares in the commercial bank, mainly external loans, and the service fee of the bank settlement business was not much money, mainly relying on loans. Whether it is a short-term loan or a medium- and long-term loan, it is very profitable. Although bad debts and dead debts are found from time to time, the borrowers have mortgages or guarantors, and the commercial banks are full of oil. But now that banks are pouring in, it will naturally encroach on a large part of the interests of commercial banks. Although commercial banks still occupy the majority of the business of savings, checking, and settlement, they will inevitably be taken away from a large share of the loans.

The Commercial Bank is a state-owned bank, and it naturally has a lot of officialdom rules. All of a sudden, the profits plunged, and if there was no proper excuse, the president of the trade bank was going to have a bit of a pain in his ass. The person who now sits in the position of president of the Commercial Bank is called Bao Zhidao, who was born in Hui.

did not give Wu Zunde, a big salt merchant who also came from She County, Huizhou, as the big treasurer before his career. The Fu Han army entered Yangzhou, and Wu Zunde, a big man, ran away, but Bao Zhidao did not run. And it was the difference of a thought at the beginning that made him, the big shopkeeper, complete the fateful transformation.

In the early days of the establishment of the Commercial Bank, he first served as the general manager, and then took the position of the top after the 'mud tire wood carving' on the top was dropped. And from raw to cooked, it has been dry well.

This sudden plunge in profits stands to reason that Bao Zhidao's position cannot be shaken. But his luck is too bad, just in time for the replacement of the old and new bosses, the trade bank is an absolute place of heavy profits, who dares to say that the one who is now acting in Nanjing City, there is no idea to change a familiar person?

Bao Zhidao was anxious to send this financial report for the first half of the year to the prince's mansion. Since June, in order to reverse the decline, he has launched large-scale loan advertising campaigns, up to major newspapers and down to street advertising spaces, and his eyes have been fixed. However, the effect is ironic, the loan business is still very sluggish, but the number of deposits in June has risen by a bit.

In this report, Bao Zhidao also analyzed the reasons for this phenomenon, not all because of the participation of other banks, but also because of the general trend of the total amount of loans declining.

The coverage area of the commercial bank is so large, and the major port cities have been lending for several consecutive years, which has met the current market demand to a certain extent. Gone are the thousands of merchants who have flocked to the port as before, and the demand for loans has naturally fallen.

In particular, the overall value of high-profit loans has been declining since last winter, while the amount of small and medium-sized loans has increased to a certain extent.

This is the general trend, and it is really difficult to reverse it with the power of banks. If it is not for the state to introduce any preferential policies to promote the second wave of development of port cities. Otherwise, if the trading company wants to keep the profit limit, it will have to expand inland.

In addition, Bao Zhidao also proposed a unified reduction in interest rates to stimulate loans, stimulate consumption, promote market development, and so on.

Chen Ming scratched his head a little, he was not familiar with this thing, he was not familiar with it at all. In his previous life, he was also a petty citizen, and he was completely blind to this kind of national financial plan. Although from the point of view of understanding, Bao Zhidao's opinion is also reasonable. If the bank lowers the interest rate and the interest rate on deposits is lowered, there will always be some people who refuse to keep their money in the bank anymore, so naturally they will take it out to consume and buy things. In this way, the products of merchants can be sold more, and they can also promote the re-expansion of industrial and commercial scale and increase jobs. Another is that when the interest rate on loans is low, many businessmen can borrow money at a lower interest cost, and when they have money, businessmen can further expand their industries......

Of course, Chen Ming also wants to see this scene appear, but is such a method necessary for Chen Han [Is the tax is growing] when the overall economy is in a period of rapid growth? Just because the bank's profitability has decreased, will it come up with such an adjustment method? Isn't it a bit of a fuss?

The economy and finance are all related to the whole body, and to stimulate economic development, should we also take into account the productivity and the consumption level of residents? Chen Ming had already returned the financial knowledge he had learned in school to his physical education teacher, but he always remembered a 'inflation' and a 'deflation'.

If consumption is stimulated and production is promoted, will there be enough gold and silver coins in circulation in the market? At least the metal currency in the hands of the Han military government has never been enough. So he's in a mess of his head right now.

"Report this to the cabinet and let them come up with a definite opinion." ”

"The Commercial Bank is allowed to enter the inland, and tells Bao Zhidao that the Commercial Bank can also go out. To India, to Europe. "There is still a large amount of real money and silver hidden in China today, and if necessary, Chen Ming can issue an order to prohibit the circulation of all non-monetary forms of gold and silver.

His mind was really a little confused. Inflation, deflation, did not mess up the world, first messed up his brain. (To be continued.) )