Chapter 523: Killing the Dog
That night, Chen Ming was dizzy, and there was exhaustion on his face. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć In the morning, he forwarded Bao Zhidao's report to the cabinet, and in the afternoon, the cabinet gave a very definite answer - agree. In the minds of current cabinet ministers, the reduction of interest rates by banks is adding fuel to the fire and icing on the cake for today's development.
But Chen Ming is definitely not that simple. In the end, Chen Ming, who had many concerns about the economy and finance, pressed this proposal, "maintaining stability"!
At present, the growth rate of China's fiscal and tax revenues is not slower than last year, which shows that the development situation is still very impressive. In this case, we should not easily touch, adjust and influence, and let this development trend naturally and continue to move forward to drive the country's income.
The pro-nobles within Chen Han don't know what GPD is, and their only understanding of the economy, which is very direct, is to look at the amount of taxes collected. If tax revenues are growing rapidly, the economy must be growing rapidly. And vice versa.
"Inflation? Deflation? ā
The cabinet ministers were also dizzy. As a Chinese in this era, there is completely zero cognition of these two terms. But they did get a little dry goods from Chen Ming, who was going to declare gold and silver bullion illegal money a year ago, and banned the direct circulation of any non-metallic gold and silver in the market.
Chen Ming wants to issue banknotes, he thinks that at this time, Chen Han's credibility value can already launch banknotes, a little bit to influence the society, a little bit to change the society. At that time, he will abolish the right to issue gold and silver bills from the banks, and at the same time form a central bank. The right to issue banknotes is exclusive to the Central Bank!
Time, the time of the issuance of banknotes, just after his accession to the throne next year!
So will the adjustment of the bank interest rate in this case 'really' cause a series of waves?
The entire cabinet didn't have any concept of this issue, so naturally the prince said that it might be affected, so it was really possible. The prince is afraid that his 'big plan' will be affected, so what decision should he make? Maintain stability!
After all, no one would dare to risk the bad consequences of touching the 'prince's plan' to push the bank interest rate down. They couldn't understand a lot of what the prince said, but since they didn't understand, who would dare to say it, then it really didn't matter?
Chen Ming's brain buzzed back to the dormitory, and the person lay down directly.
He decided that in the future, he would only look at the banking industry as much as possible, because he really didn't understand it. Fortunately, the financial order and strength of Europeans in this era were also quite fragile. According to some of the situations mentioned by Newton, although many banks in Europe have great influence and strength, they are all within their own borders. With the exception of a few banks, it is difficult for them to even 'go abroad'. Moreover, the inconvenience of information transportation has greatly affected the enthusiasm of banks to expand outward.
China has also developed its own financial order for at least 50 years.
Li Xiaomei pressed the acupoints on Chen Ming's head with both hands, and she didn't move at all about "inflation" and "deflation", all she could do now was to gently press the acupoints on Chen Ming, so that Chen Ming felt more comfortable.
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While Chen Ming was lying on the bed enjoying the massage and the treatment of his brain crashing, a fleet sent by the Nanyang Naval Division of the Fu Han Army arrived in Penang.
This was another operation after many days of silence by the Nanyang Naval Division of the Fu Han Army, who reached an agreement with the Sultan of Kedah, Abdul Halim, to protect the Sultanate of Kedah from Siamese aggression, but the Sultan of Kedah would cede Penang and the province of Perai across a narrow strait to China.
It will become a naval base for the naval division of the Fuhan Army.
The Outer Northeast in July is already as cold as late autumn, and Penang in July is still hot.
Zhang Li, Qiu Zhaojin and Ma Fuchun, three Chinese and their families, watched with anticipation as the fleet flying the battle flag of the Fu Han Army approached Penang Island little by little. Their tears could not be stopped.
There are only 55 people in the whole of Penang, and the Chinese account for one-half, which is actually the three of them. Since moving to this island 30 years ago, all three families have been living on Penang for two generations.
On weekdays, they make a living by fishing, Qiu Zhaojin is a blacksmith, Zhang Li is a teacher, and Ma Fuchun can burn charcoal. But these are side hustles, and in order to make a living, the longest thing they do is still big fish.
Although the three families who came to Penang also intermarried with the island's aborigines, they were more likely to 'communicate' with each other. They all thought that their lives had passed in such a mess, and they never thought that when they were old, they would still see a large fleet of Chinese people sailing here.
Zhang Li burst into tears, since he left his hometown, he never had the luxury of seeing the local voice. Penang is a very closed place, if it weren't for the Fu Han army who landed last time to tell him in detail about the changes in the mainland, he would still have braids.
As the fleet arrived, the first batch of at least 500 immigrants and about five labor camps were brought to shore by small boats, and the local natives had never seen so many people at once.
Since the Fu Han army has captured this place, the first thing they need to do is to build cities and forts, and dig their roots deep into this land.
Seberang Perai, which is only separated from Penang by a small strait, was also the land of the Fu Han army, a small place with relatively good port construction conditions and a control of the northern part of the Strait of Malacca. Compared with Malacca City in the hands of the Dutch, it is naturally at a disadvantage, but time is on Chen Han's side.
When Penang is fully developed, it will be the biggest threat to the city of Malacca to a certain extent.
Of course, this has a lot to do with the established strategy of the Dutch. In 1641, after the heyday of the sea coachmen defeated the Portuguese, they were not interested in developing Malacca into a trading center, as their focus was on Batavia.
But with the sudden arrival of the Fu Han army in Penang, the Dutch in Batavia will certainly soon start the road back to Malacca. But just like the 'return to the Asia-Pacific' rebalancing of the United States in the previous life, it is easier said than done.
Malacca has been abandoned by the Dutch for more than 100 years, Famosa Castle is dilapidated, although the Dutch built St. John's Castle a few years ago, but some of the guns on the battery are all aimed at the inland rather than the open sea, because at this time the main threat of the Dutch is not from the sea, but from the inland behind.
And it's easy to restore a castle in one place, but what about the economy? After the Dutch restored the armament of the city of Malacca, it was purely to watch the Chinese detachment in Penang? The price it paid was too great, and even the Dutch East India Company could not afford it.
But no matter what the reaction of the Dutch is, the sudden flying chess of the Fu Han army to Penang will be a thing that attracts the attention of all Europeans, not to mention that Penang is not the destination of the Nanyang Navy at all, their destination is the Andaman Islands.
It is not really to deploy a large army there, to deploy the forces of the sailors. Instead, a few boundary markers are installed, indicating that this place belongs to China, it's as simple as that. Otherwise, not only would the Dutch be furious, but now Ceylon [Sri Lanka] is still ruled by the Dutch, and even the British will have a big opinion.
It's a bit too close to India.
And everything that the Nanyang Naval Division of the Fu Han Army is doing now is under the banner of dealing with Burma. At that time, the Burmese king Mangbai killed his brother and stood on his own, and did not dare to resist Wu Sangui's army, and immediately launched the curse water disaster, which can be said to be one of the culprits of the death of Emperor Yongli. Since Chen Han is a Hanjia river and mountain, it is a matter of course to seek revenge from Myanmar. Even though the Donghu Dynasty had been destroyed by the current Gongbang Dynasty, this did not delay Chen Han from coming to Burma for trouble.
Isn't it a bit arrogant? But so what. Pull the hat down on your head, and everything will be over soon.
In Chen Ming's previous life, Myanmar took advantage of China, and the Shan State was simply China's land, and Myanmar inherited the British legacy, just like southern Tibet, which was occupied by India, and it was John Bull's disaster. However, due to various considerations in the early days of the Red Dynasty and subsequent changes in the international situation, Shan State was finally legally incorporated into Myanmar. As a result, in the 21st century, it is still buzzing.
July 20th, dusk.
A Chinese merchant ship flying a crimson flag quietly slipped into the port docks of Palembang. At this time, Palembang was not as prosperous as it was a few years ago, with dozens of local boats huddled lifeless in their berths, and the shore was no longer crowded with people. The Dutch colonial officials and soldiers who once commanded the docks are gone. There was only one chatting and yawning colony to take its place. It was as if the Dutch, which had been run by the Dutch for more than a hundred years, had been forgotten by them.
Palembang is located in the southern part of Sumatra, where more than 90% of the indigenous people believe in the Green Religion. The city is located on the inner side of the marshy terrain, across the banks of the lower Musi River. Fertile with water and soil, it was the birthplace of the kingdom of Sri Buddha, a powerful country in the South Seas a thousand years ago, and has been a rich land of Sumatra since ancient times.
But with the incessant passage of the local Chinese in the past two years, the city is like a stagnant water that cannot be blown by the wind, and the smell is getting stronger and stronger day by day.
A large number of Chinese either migrated to Borneo, or to Singapore or Sulu, and the exodus of Chinese was not even limited to Palembang, but included Batavia, Surabaya, Medan, Pekanbaru, Semarang, Bandung and Bangka Penang, etc., all the important cities of the Dutch East Indies, including many Chinese in Luzon, fled to Singapore, Pontianak, or Sulu.
How many people who can hold their heads high in Pontianak, Sulu, and Singapore would be willing to be dogs in Luzon, Jawwa, and Sumatra?
It's not that they really transferred all their possessions, but at least a lot of them are gone. These emigrant Chinese and large families are more precious than the unhappiness and resentment of foreigners, and the Chinese nationality they will receive.
If you want to obtain a certificate of nationality safely, you must not see the appearance of 'mongrel' in appearance, and provide direct evidence that both parents are Chinese;
It's not a hassle, it's just a little bit of a bit of a level, and when you get your citizenship through those levels, you can even faintly feel a sense of pride in retrospect.
After all, no matter what it is, the items that you can get through hard work are always better than the ones that you give away for free.
Those people in the Nanyang inheritance of hundreds of years of family, I don't know which family to start with, from the ancestral hall to invite genealogy, and then a family of as few as 100 men, women, old and young, as many as 1,000 people together to get the nationality, together with the north to bow down and worship, shouting: 'The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister.' Long live my emperor, long live, long live', that irrepressible excitement burst into tears.
It's just that this kind of 'big scene' is still rare in the end. There are even some families who are tied to the Spaniards and Portugal and can't jump off, so they naturally won't know that the Nanyang Chinese see the international certificate printed: No matter where you are in the world, the powerful motherland is behind you! The infinite emotion of this sentence!
How many days can the scum of the Manchu Qing Dynasty stumble in the northwest and northeast? The Fu Han army will soon be able to sweep the world, and then the huge China will be able to immediately launch a strategy against the South Seas without resting. The strength of the Spanish and Dutch in the South Seas was too weak and too weak.
The China of the future belongs to the whole planet. These people are either helpless, or they think they are smart, and they can't imagine what a wide range of world they will lose in the future.
Turning your attention back to Palembang, the third largest trading port in the entire Dutch East Indies, Palembang was originally an unusually prosperous city. But the local economy of this place is not only trade, but also the local plantations.
In terms of creating wealth value, one Chinese is more powerful than ten lazy natives, but now many Chinese who are buried in the local land have a better and more wonderful place to go, Pontianak. Borneo is also a fertile soil, pepper, copra, sugar cane, everything here in Palembang is there, and it's absolutely safe.
On the surface, the Fu Han army had not yet landed a single soldier in Pontianak, but the trained Chinese security forces there numbered as many as 2,000 men, each equipped with the best muskets and bayonets, and 24 cannons. This is a powerful force that can sweep away the whole of Borneo. And which of the people who served as instructors and officers in the inner middle school was not from the Fu Han Army?
There were originally many local Chinese groups and mining companies, which were as docile as rabbits in front of the Fu Han army. With the backers, these people, when the security team had not yet been trained, looked at the clerks sent to Borneo by the Dutch one by one. There is no respect at all!
After the First World War in Sulu, whether it was the Dutch or the Spaniards, the 'majesty' that had accumulated in the hearts of the Chinese for one or two hundred years was gone.
After a brief negotiation between the pilot and a pure-blooded Westerner, the leader of the colonial army on the docks, a horse-drawn carriage was soon driven in with a long-standing waiting.
The sun had sunk below the horizon, and the sky had soon darkened, and by the time the carriage had reached the depths of a street of a Chinese-style building, it was completely dark. The carriage stopped in front of a small house, the gate was slightly dilapidated, and two large red lanterns hung high to illuminate the courtyard.
The steps were also cleaned, and Cai Shaowu respectfully invited a person who arrived in the same car to get out of the carriage. The man was not too old, and his bright head reflected the red light of the lantern.
He is a monk.
Fan Wei looked at the magnificent mansion in front of him, which was no less inferior than the deep mansion compound he had seen in Shandong. Cai Shaowu's ancestor is Jiapitan, and he is indeed a big family among the Chinese in Palembang.
"Master, let's get into the house quickly."
There is no Buddhism in Palembang at all, and since the introduction of green green, in just a hundred years, the Buddhist countries that originally ruled Java and Sumatra have become the country of Xingyue. The indigenous people of the Dutch East Indies have not known about the Buddha for hundreds of years. The local natives all believe in green, and the people who know what a Buddha is, except for the Han people, are also Han people. However, the Han people were few and poor, and the Dutch pulled the shelf, so that the Han people did not dare to build Buddhist temples openly except for worshipping Buddha statues in their own homes.
Although the area where the Cai family is located is a Chinese area, there are many natives who are slaves and servants in each family. In particular, a large number of Chinese migrated, and many abandoned houses were occupied by local natives. Cai Shaowu knew that Fan Wei's identity was special, and Fan Wei's ultimate goal was not Palembang, but Penang, which had just been occupied by the Fu Han army, which was close to Siam and Burma, and Siam and Burma were both Buddhist countries.
Therefore, there is no need for Fan Wei to be eye-catching in Palembang immediately.
Fan Wei clasped his hands in front of Cai Shaowu and walked into the gate of Fan's house. As a rebellious monk, it is difficult for outsiders to know how much respect and piety Fan Wei has for the Buddha in his heart. However, he happily embarked on the present path, having previously spread Buddhism among the Chinese in Pontianak, and now entering the more dangerous island of Penang, where it was difficult for outsiders to see him purely as a monk.
He also has his own consciousness in his heart.
Cai Shaowu returned to his homeland in Palembang after more than half a year, and there was no joy and familiarity in his heart, but a sense of strangeness and alienation. "Cai Hong, go and tell the people below how many people are willing to go to Pontianak."
Since the Cai family has decided to abandon everything in Palembang, the last vestiges of this family in Palembang should not be done.
"Second master, the Lin family sent someone to post, please be sure to give face tomorrow?"
The kitchen has prepared a set of vegetarian seats, which of course cannot be compared with the vegetarian seats inherited from the famous temples and temples in China, but the host and guests are happy. And at this moment, Cai Hong, the housekeeper who stayed in Palembang Cai Mansion, walked in with a post.
A sneer appeared on Cai Shaowu's face, "Lin Chunde?" Let him. "Paralyzed, at the beginning, the Cai family wanted to mix in Palembang, and they wanted to mix under the hands of the Dutch, just an old dog like the Lin family, no matter how disgusted the Cai family was, they would be vain and wronged. But now? The Cai family has all moved to Pontianak, although there are still many plantations left in Sumatra, but so what? How dare the Dutch touch it for no reason? When the Cai family's nationality certificate is fake? When China's prestige in the South Seas is false?
Fan Wei also put down his chopsticks, "Lin Chunde? Is it Lin Chu's descendant? ā
"The third son of the thief. I really want to kill their whole family right now. ā
Fan Wei also had a cold murderous intent on his face, "Wait and see." It's almost time......"
The Lin Chu family, that is the unforgivable person personally set by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. None of them will survive! How can you atone for your infinite sins?
"Hmph, now I know I'm scared. When the battle of Sulu was not conclusive, Lin Chunde had a different face. "Cai Shaowu will never forget the appearance of Lin Chunde holding a cross to God 'Amen, Amen'. The cubs who have forgotten their ancestors must also be the rats who have forgotten their ancestors.
Lin Chu is a dog, and his four sons and sons-in-law are all dogs. "It's not that the time has not come." It's not been a few days since the dog was killed! The days of revenge are just a few days away. The blood of Red Creek cannot be shed in vain. (To be continued.) )