Chapter 10: Intrigues
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The issuance of banknotes is an important tax of the political axe, called the seigniorage, and it is also the most powerful tax.
There are two aspects to printing money, one is to accommodate the increase in GDP and thus the issuance of additional money, which will not cause inflation and at the same time prevent monetary deflation.
On the other hand, the seigniorage, while printing more money, a certain percentage of the tax is collected from the people, and generally speaking, this seigniorage is maintained between 1% ~ 2% of GDP.
In addition, it was said that the tax revenue of European and American countries accounted for 40% of the people's income, and the conclusion was that the people's taxes were low, the Celestial Empire was very happy, and food had risen nearly twice since 2008 to 2011. It is difficult for the general public to know the exact amount of seigniorage.
As Keynes said, "When there is no other way, a political axe can survive in this way." ”
Chiang Kai-shek's national political axe was also printing money during the anti-Japanese period, and the myth of depreciation was almost the same as the ruble during the collapse of the Soviet Union, of course, the national political axe had indeed reached the extent that there was no other way.
Xia Jun's current financial situation is relatively good, but there is still a lack of seigniorage, an important tax, and the currency used in Fujian is relatively disorderly, with silver dollars minted in Fujian, silver dollars in circulation in other provinces, and even many foreign currencies in circulation.
If a country does not print its own currency and uses the currency of other countries, it is equivalent to handing over the seigniorage to others, so issuing banknotes is what Xia Jun must do, and it is also urgent to do.
Xia Jun decided to personally serve as the governor of the central bank, and Li Shengguo's Bank of East China was a private bank, not state-owned, and had no power to issue currency.
The currency issued by the central bank is divided into five denominations: 1, 2, 5, 10 and 100 yuan, and 1 yuan is exchanged for 1 silver dollar, while auxiliary currencies below 1 yuan are issued by the Ministry of Education.
The 40 million silver dollars allocated to the Ministry of Education are far from meeting the investment in education, so Xia Jun decided to subsidize the Ministry of Education with seigniorage, and the auxiliary coins issued by the Ministry of Education will be issued in a ratio of 1:10 to the number issued by the Central Bank, that is, the Central Bank will issue 100 yuan and the Ministry of Education will issue 10 yuan.
In terms of the pattern of the banknote, Xia Jun decided to print his head on the banknote, 1 yuan, 2 yuan, 5 yuan, 10 yuan, 100 yuan are all printed on his head, and the back is printed with the Great Wall pattern, and at the same time printed with the logo of the Baath Party, the design of the first set of banknotes is exquisite, but also single, because the main goods regardless of the size of the denomination, are used in the same pattern, but in the anti-counterfeiting technology is unambiguous.
The first thing used is the carved plate, which is carved by hand, and it is difficult for even the original author to carve an identical one.
Second, using the computer-created prints, the application of special color electronic drawing and publishing software can produce particularly complex, subtle, delicate, high-resolution printed floral patterns and shading. This kind of very complex floral patterns and shading made by computer-aided design system are difficult to copy, such as very complex group flowers, arbitrary geometric figures, single-line, composite or twisted closed lace, group flowers and other graphics, but also make the graphics and texts distorted, deformed, or made into square connections, concentric circles, intaglio, flat line relief. Curved relief, multi-color relief. multi-color single-embedded reliefs, etc. Tuanhua can also be embedded in text, shading graphics can also move gradients, in short, you can let your rich imagination to create unprecedented difficult to imitate graphics, but also can be used as tickets, cards, cards and a variety of paper, packaging shading.
The above two anti-counterfeiting technologies are basically useless in later generations, due to the emergence of technologies such as photographic plate making, light scanning, laser engraving, computer-controlled machine tool engraving and photosensitive stamp making, and high-fidelity color copiers, etc., so that the imitation engraving image, seal and the pattern created by the computer becomes easy, and the copy is very realistic, which becomes a big confusion of these two anti-counterfeiting methods. However, these technologies did not exist in this era, so these two technologies have high anti-counterfeiting capabilities.
Third, the use of gravure printing, the size of the gravure is lower than the layout of the printing plate, and the concave pattern is also divided into shades, so as to show the height of the picture and text, the thickness of the adsorption ink, so the printed pattern can be a three-dimensional image, the three-dimensional sense is strong, and there is a sense of concave and convex when touched by hand. This technique had already appeared at the end of the 19th century, so Xia Jun used a more advanced multi-color gravure technique.
Fourth, the use of black and white watermark, which is more complex than the simple watermark technology, banknotes in the light, you can see a watermark of Xia Jun's head.
Fifth, microprinting technology is used to print extremely tiny words that can only be seen under a magnifying glass on what appears to be a solid line or dotted line to the naked eye, and of course, microtext can also be printed on the lines, lines or dots that make up the pattern. Microprinting can be used for both general tickets and the security line of banknotes or passport paper for comprehensive anti-counterfeiting. Xia Jun printed the words 'Central Bank of East China' on the collar of his portrait, and at the same time printed a line in the lower right corner: 'Our descendants of Yan and Huang should all rise up and work hard to revive the great cause of China', and in the lower left corner, a line was printed 'All Chinese citizens enjoy the right to freedom'.
Fifth, the use of invisible image technology, the use of machine-carved plate making lines of the depth of changeable surnames, the printed pattern is a kind of graphic at a glance, and there is another or more kinds of images hidden in close inspection, these graphics are easy to produce illusions when observed with the naked eye; When imitation is made with photoplate making or laser phototypesetting, it is distorted and blurred, and some features are lost.
After the application of these five anti-counterfeiting technologies, the anti-counterfeiting technology of 'Fuxing coin' is absolutely the most cutting-edge in contemporary times, and Xia Jun uses a special banknote paper, which is delicate and crisp to the touch, with a strong texture, good waterproof, high flexibility, and suitable for gravure printing.
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Just when Xia Jun was busy printing money, the provinces of China were also changing dramatically at this time, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan and other provinces successively announced their reading power, and the new army in Hubei Province that entered Sichuan was on the way anyway, and Sichuan subsequently also declared peace reading power.
The main force of reading power in these provinces is the local forces, which are not loyal to the Manchus, but seeing the success of the uprising of the Hubei Revolutionary Army and the successful uprising of the Fujian Autonomous Political Axe, they have also begun to follow the reading power.
Among them, the establishment of the East China Provisional Political Axe after the Fujian Autonomous Political Axe Uprising made the Qing court the most panicked, and urged Yuan Shikai to quell the rebellion as soon as possible.
Yuan Shikai was also very jealous of the East China Provisional Political Axe, but the East China Provisional Political Axe had some contact with him, and promised that as long as he overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he would be elected as the president of the Republic of China.
This made Yuan Shikai feel that he had no second route to choose from, because people had already drawn the way for you, if he didn't do it according to the meaning of the East China Temporary Political Axe, the East China Temporary Political Axe would no longer support him Yuan Shikai, and Yuan Shikai knew the power of the East China Temporary Political Axe, and the East China Temporary Political Axe dared to argue with Yu Ben before, so he naturally relied on it.
The revolutionaries, on the other hand, were hostile to the Baath Party, because the Baath Party forcibly captured Shanghai, and Chen Qimei and others began to denounce the East China Provisional Political Axe for killing the revolutionaries in the newspapers.
At this time, the major newspapers in Shanghai were already full of remarks asking the East China Provisional Political Axe to get out of Shanghai, Xia Jun was unmoved in Jian'an, how could he give up the territory in his hands, as for the pressure of public opinion, he basically ignored it, and let them make trouble if they like to make trouble! Anyway, he had united himself internally, and he was afraid that they would not make trouble, so he only counterattacked in the "Fuxing Daily", mainly to prevent misunderstanding among party insiders.
At the same time, Jiangxi Nanchang also made a new move, Wu Jiezhang, who had just been elected as the governor of Jiangxi, was too generous to use an iron fist and could not control the situation, so that people's hearts fluctuated, and the situation in the city was extremely chaotic, not to mention the military branches in Pingxiang and Ganzhou.
Soon, the former members of the 53-standard "Hongmen Association" of the former Mixed Association stationed in Jiujiang planted the party for personal gain, mobilized Neijiang, and proposed that "Jiangsu people should not be the governor of Jiangxi", and pushed the 53-standard commander Ma Liubao to replace him. Wu Jiezhang was lonely and was forced to leave Nanchang and return to Changzhou to live in seclusion, and Wu Jiezhang served as the governor of Jiangxi for only 9 days.
Ma Liubao, the newly appointed 53 standard commander, soon canceled the military sub-offices in Pingxiang, Ganzhou and other places, and the last target was the Jiangxi territory that Xia Jun swallowed.
When the governor of Jiangxi began to focus on the provisional political axe of East China, there was a mutiny in Hunan on October 31, Jiao Dafeng and others were murdered by the constitutionalists, and Tan Yanhong succeeded him as the governor of Hunan.
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