Chapter VII Abundant Sources of Finance

The good official Wu Dashi began to invoke his own personal connections and invite talents from all over the place. He was unfavorable www.biquge.info building a factory in Jilin, and then described the situation at that time and said: "The ministers are very anxious and have the regret of being helpless." Fortunately, Song Chunao and other members of the same knowledge, the ministers replied to the business, the words were sincere, the staff and other forgiveness of the ministers' suffering, not afraid of trekking, sailing, their feelings can be felt, their ambitions can also be commendable, the difficulty of this transfer is also. "There were still good people in the late Qing Dynasty, but there were too few.

The Chinese nation has always attached great importance to integrity and personality, and if a scholar and an official are not for the nation and the motherland, they will lose the integrity of a scholar and official; The value of learning is to serve the people, society, the country and mankind; The value of officials is also equal.

A scholar or an official must get rid of his stubborn selfishness, so that his personality can be properly expressed, and when the country is in trouble, he will first serve the country, then his family, and then his own; When the country is in trouble, the country is broken, where the family is, and the people survive.

If a nation has many people who serve the country and the people, then the nation must be very strong; If a nation has many selfish people, then the nation must be very weak. There are more Wu Dashi and more Song Chunao in the Chinese nation, how dare the wild boars of the mad dogs of the eight countries bite, how dare they invade the sister country of the Fa country, and who dares to be a stupid pig and a pug, all of them will be killed, and the Qing traitorous pigs will also be killed.

After Song Chunao came to Ji in 1881, he lived up to the expectations of the good official Wu Dashi. If the good official Wu Dashi is the founder of the Jilin Machinery Bureau, then Song Chunao, who has served as the general office for 15 years, is the most meritorious manager of the Jilin Bureau. He played a very important role in the history of the Jilin Bureau. The determination of important personnel made the good official Wu Dayi think more and farther.

The good official Wu Dashi considered: "Among the factories, the craftsman is the most important. Among the factories, the machine is the most important. To install a boiler, you must be familiar with it, and assembling the machine is not a good workman. Teaching apprentices, intriguing, planning patterns, and setting models are all based on craftsmen. The craftsman has been in the Tianjin Bureau and Shanghai Bureau for a long time, and his qualifications are particularly deep, and the work and food are also thick. Transferred to the bitter cold land of Jilin, it is regarded as a daunting road, and everyone is bound. Or come to a month or two and return from illness, many constraints. Now there is no shortage of good materials in the bureau, all of which are Song Chunao and others trying to solicit, painstakingly and lonely, and it is difficult to choose craftsmen."

According to the statistics of 1884, the Jilin Bureau had a total of 431 people at the beginning of its establishment, and a total of 828 people in 1898. In order to attract craftsmen to Kyrgyzstan, the good official Wu Dayi adopted a higher salary policy of poor seniors and poor types of work. In the initial stage, the responsible personnel at the factory bureau level had 30 taels of silver per month; 20 to 30 taels of silver per month; The craftsman has 10 taels of silver per month, which is 5 times that of the apprentice, and the difference is large. The key parts and dangerous parts are 1.3 to 1.5 two days, and the others are 6 to 9 yuan, and the craftsmen in non-important positions are only more than 3 yuan per day. The implementation of such a high salary for senior and different types of work has played a certain role in recruiting and stabilizing craftsmen from other provinces.

However, with a high salary, you must have financial resources, you must have a wide range of financial resources, Jilin has gold and silver, the good official Wu Dashi recruited the small country mine to produce gold, silver and copper, so he took the lead in the efficient machine casting silver dollar, in 1882 in the early days of the establishment of the bureau trial casting into a full color pattern silver factory flat 1 tael silver pattern coin, and then minted into the "Jilin factory flat silver dollar" 1 tael 7 money 5 money 3 money 1 coin silver coin, is casting "factory flat X two (money)", back casting "Jilin Machinery Bureau supervision" words, a total of 5000 taels and stop, Jilin Changping silver dollar is the ancestor of China's use of regular machines to cast silver dollars.

The "Jilin Changping Silver Dollar" is one of the top ten rare coins in the silver coin collection industry today. In 2007, it was auctioned at a flat price of 1 yuan, reaching a transaction price of nearly 10,000 yuan, and appreciated nearly 10,000 times in more than 100 years; In 2013, the online quotation reached a sky-high price of 200,000 yuan for 1 yuan!

In order to save the money shortage, the good official Wu Dashi played and asked the drum to cast money "Guangxu Tongbao" to set up four furnaces, the furnace day cast 90,000 pieces of money, and imitated the "Longyang" silver dollar "Guangxu Yuanbao" called Ji Xiaoyang, and then added copper yuan. During this period, nearly 4.75 million 1 yuan coins, 7.72 million 5 jiao coins, 22.51 million 2 jiao coins, and 940,000 1 jiao coins were minted, with a total value of nearly 18.2 million silver dollars. This is only the number that can be checked, how many are the total number that cannot be checked? No one knows anymore. Jilin Guangxu ingots silver dollar" because of the inferior silver, at that time only in the three eastern provinces of the common use.

However, this was not a lot of money in Jilin at that time, and the most money was the gold bandits of the "small country" mining tyrants, who occupied more than 40 kilometers of gold-rich ore belt from Jiapigou to Wangjiadian, with dozens of large, medium and small gold mining mines. Jiapigou used to be the largest gold mine in China, famous for its abundant high-quality gold, and has the reputation of "China's first gold mine", known as the cradle of China's non-ferrous metal industry.

According to statistics: from 1845 to 1940, a total of 36,000 tons of gold was mined in the Jiapigou gold belt, and what is the concept of such output! In the past, 1 catty of gold was 16 taels, 36,000 tons, how much is this! There are also documents that record that nine years after Xianfeng (1859), the daily output of gold in Jilin Jiapigou reached more than 500 taels. So what kind of concept was a daily output of more than 500 taels of gold in that era?

During the Xianfeng period, a large amount of silver outflow, resulting in a sharp rise in the price of gold, silver, precious copper, gold and silver, the highest time reached 1 tael of gold can be exchanged for silver 20-24 taels, 1 tael of silver can be exchanged for 1.4-2 silver dollars, 1 silver dollar is exchanged for 1200-1600 copper coins, 1 tael of silver is exchanged for 2200-2500 copper coins (90% of the fineness of silver dollars is 7 coins and 2 cents, silver dollars and silver at that time the number of copper coins exchanged by the people is relatively chaotic, and the number of silver and yuan exchanged for copper coins is not equal).

Looking at how much was more than 500 taels of gold a day at that time? According to 1 tael of gold, only 20 taels of silver are exchanged for the most minority: 10,000 taels of silver per day! Then 1 tael of silver is exchanged for 1.5 silver dollars: 15,000 silver dollars per day! As high as about 450,000 silver dollars per month, it is a huge wealth of nearly 5.47 million silver dollars every year! In the twelfth year of Guangxu (1886), the annual financial income of the Qing court was 80 million taels of silver, which was used by the whole country, but the small country was only a very small mining tyrant and gold bandit in the northeast borderland, but it already had such a huge wealth, but it only built a private house for its own private use, expanded its private courtyard, raised more than 1,000 private bandits, bribed officers and soldiers to occupy mines and land, and became the largest private force in Jilin at that time.

It is a pity, a pity that such wealth cannot serve the country, the people and the army. The small country of gold bandits and mining tyrants is a scourge for Jilin, and the number of exterminations cannot be destroyed, occupying the Jiangnan area on the other side of Jilin has its own detention center, using guards and torture instruments, and raising the court to inquire about cases at any time, severely dealing with all kinds of people who are disobedient and disobedient to him, killing people without taking paperwork, manipulating life and death, performing forced labor, leviing taxes, taking the harm of one person for hundreds of miles, holding the life and death of thousands of households, just like an independent small kingdom outside the rule of the government, and outsiders also call it "a small country". Once upon a time, the people of Jiangnan in Jilin only knew that there was a Han family, but they did not know that there was a national government outside, and its disaster was so great that it could be seen that it was miserable! A herd of wild boars, a scourge of man......