Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Age of Hard Currency
A series of precious metal mines, such as Kagoshima Hishikari Gold Mine, Ou Gold Mine, Kai Gold Mine, Sado Gold Mine, Echizen Silver Mine, Tsushima Silver Mine, etc., are fully excavated, and can produce 160 tons of gold and 500 tons of silver a year. Such a high yield is entirely due to the use of the latest modern technology, and now it is said that the only way to pan for gold in the water is gravity beneficiation, and the yield is extremely low and the waste is amazing. Even the backward production method that has not been used by the soot blowing method makes it very unaccustomed to the traversal who are accustomed to using the combined process of roasting-acid leaching-(salt leaching)-cyanide leaching, and all the chemicals have to be transported from the mainland, and it is difficult to adapt to the low technical level of the islands.
"To raise the level of each local industry, it is necessary to raise the level of several upstream and downstream industries, and this kind of cascading effect may allow us to curb the bankruptcy of the plan and promote the industrialization of the capital."
"Impossible, improving the technical level of some local resource-superior industries will not lead to the uncontrolled growth of the science and technology tree, and it is impossible for us to promote the emergence of other heavy chemical industries that are ten times and a hundred times larger than the development of the smelting and precious metal industry and the processing industry. Our trading fleet alone is enough to cover all the logistics and transportation needs. Hold the political, military, cultural, economic, and even religious rights of this country with a population of millions and potential to surpass that of Western Xia, or are you afraid that its overall technological level will catch up with the suzerain? You read the book and see stupid, right? ”
"When we come, we use copper coins as ballast goods, and when we leave, we use gold, silver, and copper ingots as ballast goods, and God will be jealous of our profiteering, and the profit of transporting money is higher than that of minting money, which is like the spectacle of driving a banknote cart and driving a money printing machine." Wang Neng played with a delicate gilt ebony bone fan and sighed.
"Profiteering is the premise for us to ensure that we continue to lead, not always thinking about suppressing others in order to stay ahead, but to strengthen ourselves for the sake of leading. We all know that it is easy to suppress others, it is difficult to improve ourselves, it costs little to suppress others, and it costs a lot to improve ourselves. But we are not ordinary people, we can eat for decades, so this kind of idea of suppressing others should be left to the grandchildren to consider! "Bai Jia, who has always maintained the mentality of crossing the strong people, bullied foreigners, and has never relied on crooked methods.
"If we are still scared on the premise of opening a cheat, we will just hit our heads and die. Lions are afraid of mice, this kind of thing happens to your generation of Shang Sheng, it is indeed unusual. Wang Xinyu teased.
"Lao Wang is right! Being prepared for danger in times of peace is the instinct of successful people, and we can neither be too careless nor too nervous. Proper supervision and guidance can not be relaxed, and the Heijia also needs an opponent to restrain it, otherwise the tail will lose our original intention. ”
"So who do you think is suitable? What about their family's feud? ”
"The Yuan family has many ambitions, and I don't feel at ease, if I want to support an agent who can compete with the peace family, I can't choose the samurai family. If you get two warlords, under the provocation of the old fox Emperor Baihe, will they be taken advantage of by the old fox? The power of the Hei family is mainly in the western region, and it is better for the agent of the east to find a non-samurai family, and the lower the starting point, the better. "As a person engaged in diplomacy and politics, Bai Jia is still very wary of Emperor Baihe.
Since the Warring States Period, there have been customs and conventions for the lower classes of scholars to struggle and become the upper classes, and after the emergence of the imperial examination system, institutionalized class convection exchange has been realized. It is best not to cherish this kind of advanced system, because it is very powerful to search for talents. It would be nice to replicate an unofficial imperial examination system! ”
"The resistance to the imperial examination of the political system is too great, you see that the Tang envoys have not promoted it for hundreds of years! The military system is a waste of human resources because the turmoil of the civil war has killed too many people and is not in our colonial interests. In the economic system, our national socialism has not yet developed this monopoly scale, and there are not many posts arranged. You have also seen in the cultural desert, and the system of evaluating professional titles is simply a joke. I think only the religious system can be manipulated. ”
"Do you mean to develop an earthly Buddha kingdom in the eastern kingdom? The temple economy is indeed in line with the level of productivity in the feudal era. The temple is indeed another form of close relatives of the state, it can have a huge open organization, its own land and property, the economic management tradition of usury, the monks and soldiers are legal armed organizations, the religious law is the law, the election of the pope is more in line with the spirit of the modern Ming boil election, the internal training and education system, and the tradition of selecting grassroots cadres is even longer.
If it is done well, the long-cherished wish of Emperor Shirakawa can be realized! His three major unsatisfactory problems (the flood of the Hemao River, the gamble of Double Six, and the reactionary monks who often stormed the imperial court, Master Shan) can be satisfactorily resolved. Floods can be solved by building hydraulic projects, gambling games can be perpetuated by teaching skill and probability, and the radical traditions of the mountain mages can be wiped out by the advanced means of the agents we have fostered. Zhao Shouzhong said.
"It is the beginning of the Xiaoice period, global cooling is the premise, drought and famine are the general trend, food and gold and silver are the past and future hard currencies, and the resource-for-hard currency plan we have constructed is absolutely impossible." Primary, such as gold and silver minerals, pearl seafood, various cash crops, ores and timber, labor-intensive swords, folding fans, and lacquerware, were all good things that could be used to balance the trade deficit. Our export machinery, steel, copper coins, silk, porcelain, tea and medicinal materials, luxury goods, grains and spices can be used as the main force of our export. These trades can make a sustained contribution to the development of a qualified agent and the establishment of a gold-standard financial system and an overseas buffer economy that covers the entire spectrum. Chen Guanxian did not leave the bank in three sentences.
"Rice and seafood are the main food consumption, barter is the mainstream means of exchange, to tamper with the Buddhist teachings, to guide the believers to form the consumption concept and money habits we need is a century-old plan, not impatient. All the gold and silver were sealed, and it was too advanced to be used as a reserve for the issuance of credit banknotes, which was unrealistic. We still need to mint a batch of gold and silver coins and enter the market for a period of time to cultivate the customary foundation of the three-level composite standard of gold, silver and copper. Then in three or five years it entered the era of the gold standard. Sun Chang answered.
"The bronze statue of the temple is a special form of reserve! In the feudal era, there were very few families and organizations that could compete with the temple for financial resources. Buddhism's organizational strength is still a little worse than that of modern joint-stock companies, and isn't it unusual for us to run religion as a comprador company? It was difficult for Yang Wenhui to accept such a blasphemous idea.
"It's much better than the West as an excuse and self-placebo for the slaughter of natives! The Western colonizers only got gold and silver to consume goods from the East, we will not stay at such a low level, the starting point is to establish a gold standard financial system covering East Asia, these gold and silver will not go through global circulation after leaving the underground, they will skip the step of physical transshipment, their main function of the medium of exchange identity will be deprived of paper money, and the function of circulation means will be fulfilled through the strong and flood of copper coins and paper money exchanged wirelessly. As for the value standard, the deferred payment standard, the store of value, the world currency, and so on, the identity and function will be just a game of changing a few labels in the underground vaults of our banks. Like imprisoned gods, they have no value in themselves, and their value comes entirely from the belief that the people believe in them. Chen Guan pointed out the key first.
"The underground vault is not intuitive enough, and it is difficult for people to form a sense of trust if they can't see it. Our propaganda methods have not yet reached the level of video and live broadcast, so it would be good to cast a Buddha statue? We can set a ratio of a cast image to an ingot, how about a ratio of one to three? Gao Jing proposed.
"Yes, there is interest on saving money, there is no interest on saving gold, and you can also collect some sesame oil money when you cast a Buddha statue, as a catalyst for promoting faith is the greatest contribution of gold!" Wang Neng stood on the basis of facts, and instinctively agreed.
"That's settled, we don't want to see too much gold sleeping in the vault, so why spend time, energy and cost digging it out of the ground and smelting it into ingots and putting it in the underground vault. Isn't this too much to eat? "It's good to have a one-to-one ratio, and you have to keep the vault open for people to visit and charge for admission. We never trade at a loss, and if we spend money to move gold from the ore to the vault and there is no profit, isn't that a net loss? Chen Guanxian said.
"You're pretending to be a loser again! With these banknotes and commercial paper issued by gold and silver, you can get an annualized yield of far more than 5% by casually turning around the interbank market, and still lose money? It's okay for you to deceive primitive people who haven't read books, and you want to deceive us? I haven't eaten enough brain fragments! Sun Chang thought that his capable apprentice and home chef was first poached by Chen Guanxian to the Bund Restaurant as a chef, and he was mentally blocked. Although the income of the disciple has increased fiftyfold, the continued cultivation and enjoyment of one-on-one teaching are deprived.
"Stop arguing! This is just an internal joke, and we have to choose an agent to be the helmsman of the eastern part of the country! Hurry up and get down to business. Richie pulled back to the topic.