Chapter 204 Before the Spring Festival

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Entering the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, the circulation of goods in the Xia Empire has increased significantly, and people's faces are filled with happy smiles. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Whether it is a businessman or the general public, they want to celebrate it well this year, have a successful Spring Festival businessmen increase the supply of goods, and continue to reward people with great discounts This year's income increases, solve the problem of food and clothing, education, medical care and pension are guaranteed, life has hope, the social environment is stable, and there is no need to worry about life anymore, so this year is ready to spend the Spring Festival with peace of mind, and the purchase of items has been greatly enhanced.

After signing the Zhenyuan Treaty, Zhang Wei breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed, the next step is to first eliminate the Japanese army entrenched in Lushun, and the other is to build the occupied area well.

Zheng Daoyou came to Zhang Wei's study in the palace, and before he sat down, he asked: "Your Majesty, will the year-end summary and next year's work plan be placed before the year or after the year?" ”

"Haha, Premier Zheng, this is all a trivial matter, you sit down first and speak slowly! Shuhan, serve coffee to Premier Zheng, don't add sugar! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Shuhan replied crisply and turned to prepare. Shuhan is a palace maid who is in charge of Zhang Wei's study during the day, with a delicate appearance, delicate skin, elegant temperament, and a very good temper, which is very liked by Zhang Wei.

Zheng Daoyou had no choice but to sit down on the chair opposite Zhang Wei's desk and wait for Shuhan to bring coffee. And Zhang Wei continued to bow his head and write and draw on the paper.

After Shuhan brought the coffee and went out, and closed the door, Zhang Weicai raised his head and asked Zheng Daoyou: "How did your government affairs Yuan arrange it?" ”

Zheng Daoyou had no choice but to say his thoughts first: "Your Majesty, now some of the guests from various countries have left after participating in the founding ceremony and military parade, and some things must not leave until the goal is achieved, and now the busiest is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has just signed an armistice treaty with Japan, and the countries are going to negotiate the purchase of new weapons such as airships and incendiary bombs, the Ministry of Commerce is discussing aid and loans with the forces of the Qing Dynasty and Yuan Shikai, and the courts and other departments are also busy setting up new departments in the newly occupied areas. Therefore, my opinion is to carry out this year's year-end summary and next year's work plan after the Spring Festival. “

Zhang Wei thought about it for a while and said: "Then follow your meaning, but the year-end summary should be written before the year and handed over to me, as for next year's plan, you can hand it over to me before the fifteenth day of the first month, the summary meeting and the planning meeting are placed after the fifteenth day of the first month, this year will let the citizens of the whole empire have a good year with peace of mind, and the government affairs yuan must do a good job of this work!" “

It's not that Zhang Wei doesn't care about government affairs, it's mainly that everyone is too busy this year, too tired, too much, and close to the Spring Festival, everyone's work has increased a lot, so Zhang Wei decided to put the summary meeting and planning meeting house after the Spring Festival, it is estimated that by that time the war against Japan should be over, it will be easier to plan, and the plan will be more comprehensive The General Staff is busy arranging the elimination of the Japanese army in Arthur, while negotiating with Italy, the Ottoman Empire and several other countries to buy battleships, It is also necessary to set up 12 ** regiments stationed in Japan, which is also very busy.

During this period after the year, all departments will focus on internal construction, the pressure will be relatively less, the situation will be stabilized, and the plan will be more perfect at that time. The workload of the General Staff and the Government Council has been reduced, and Zhang Wei's own affairs have been much less.

After comprehensive consideration, Zhang Wei decided to increase people's happiness and improve people's loyalty to the government, and now the monthly point income cannot be spent at all, and it is better to spend it in the system.

So Zhang Wei announced that all the primary school students studying in school, each family will be given 200 catties of grain, 5 catties of refined salt, all junior high school students studying in school, each family will be given 400 catties of grain, and 10 catties of refined salt will be distributed to each high school student and secondary school students studying in school, 50 taels of silver will be issued to each college student, and 100 taels of silver will be issued to each person, so that these people and these families can have a good year, so that everyone can develop the consciousness of knowledge to change their destiny in a subtle way.

For all the citizens who newly immigrated to the Xia Empire this year, each household was given 10 taels of silver, hoping that they could live and work in peace and contentment in the Xia Empire and have a peaceful Spring Festival.

For police and garrison units, each person is paid an additional month's salary as a year-end bonus.

For all system personnel, each person will be paid an additional 3 months' salary as a year-end bonus.

All these expenses came from the royal family, which made the whole country boil instantly, thanks to the empire, thanks to the royal family.

The happiest were the people who were rewarded, but even happier than them were the merchants of the Empire, who would spend their money sooner or later, which greatly increased the purchasing power of the people of the Empire.

However, Zhang Wei was very distressed when he saw the rapid decline of points, and it was exchanged for silver, which was not cost-effective.

It seems that the central bank must be built as soon as possible, so that it will not save the trouble of transporting silver, and will not lead to the outflow of its own silver, which will lead to a decline in the price of silver within the empire.

However, there is also an unexpected joy, that is, the ambassadors in Shangjing lamented the strong financial resources of the Xia Empire, or lamented the wealth of the supporting forces behind the empire, and at the same time, they also reported to their respective countries that the Xia Empire distributed a large number of silver to the people as a reward, which not only led to the decline in the price of silver in various countries following the price of silver in the Xia Empire, but also led to a significant increase in the amount of silver exchanged on James's side.

People engaged in silver and gold trading in various countries know that the price of silver is constantly falling, only the price of gold is relatively the most stable, and in the last hundred years, the price of silver has fallen faster and faster, from about 1 to 10 at the beginning of the 19th century, down 1 to 35, and now in less than one month, the exchange ratio has fallen rapidly to 1 to 40, this decline has made the countries in the world that adopt the gold standard financial policy very happy, and are looking for a way, Convert the silver reserves into gold as soon as possible, and James is the most convenient way to do this.

The silver distributed by Zhang Wei was quickly earned back by James, which can be regarded as a crooked fight and a return for Zhang Wei's kindness.

In addition, merchants from all over the world found that the Xia Empire, a place where wealth gathered, had many business opportunities, and goods from various countries also poured into the Xia Empire like flowing water, and just the customs tax made the empire earn a lot of money.

Zhang Wei also took the opportunity to take out a large number of materials from the system to stabilize prices and trap the materials transported from various countries, which not only allowed Zhang Wei to recover some of the cash, but also turned the Xia Empire's New Year's goods trading market into an exhibition market for Xia Empire's goods, so that the merchants from all over the world found that the Xia Empire was not short of materials at all, and the variety of materials was more complete, the price was lower than their own domestic price, and the quality was better. This makes them feel lost in losing money and excited to discover a new business opportunity.

After getting the report from the Ministry of Commerce, Zhang Wei sighed that good people have good rewards, and they are worried that their system products can't find a good way out, and now customers automatically come to the door. To be continued.

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