At breakfast on August 8, Staff Officer Fang said to Zhang Wei: "Young master, the territory we occupy now has exceeded the village level, and when the 2nd and 3rd battalions complete their tasks, we will exceed the requirements for upgrading to the town level, so what we need now is time." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Zhang Wei said, "Don't be proud of the staff officer, you also know that the upgrade of this system requires you to know that each upgrade needs to be 10 times the area of the last upgrade, so it is very easy to upgrade at the beginning, the more you go to the back, the higher the level, the bigger the upgrade." It is not difficult to upgrade to the municipal level, but the most difficult thing is to upgrade to the provincial level."

"Young master, when we are upgraded to the provincial level, with powerful modern equipment, we can crush all enemies, so I still don't worry about the upgrade at that time, but we are too weak now, and we are especially easy to be annihilated."

"So now we are developing in a low-key manner, and we must not let the news leak. Besides, after upgrading to the provincial level, the weapon is modernized, but you also have to buy it with points, do you know how difficult it is to earn points and how easy it is to spend them? ”

"Young master, you still have gone into a misunderstanding, when the territory and population are small, it is murder and robbery, and use the looted materials to exchange points, in fact, this is relatively easy to do, but it is also a relatively stupid way."

Zhang Wei listened to the words of the staff officer, so he asked, "What good way do you have?" ”

"Young master, the easiest way to earn points is to use the system, the exchange ratio of gold and silver in the system is 1:10, but in reality, how can it be above 1:30, isn't this the biggest benefit?"

Zhang Wei thought about it, and instantly understood how to get points, and said: "The way is a good way, now we have no place to change, and if this news is exposed, then I will die without a place to be buried, it is estimated that people all over the world will hunt me down, even if I have great ability, I can't escape." ”

"Young master, you can not come forward, then who will hunt you down."

"How can you not show up? The inflow and outflow of such a large amount of gold and silver is something that everyone will notice. ”

"Haven't you forgotten that you can synthesize spies and merchants with foreign faces, and if they go out, everything will be solved? And it's also convenient. ”

"It's a really good idea, as long as you set up trading points in Pontianak, Batavia and Singapore." Zhang Wei said: "But let's wait for us to upgrade to the county level, now we don't even have the strength to protect ourselves, if I leave, the difficulty will be even greater." Besides, the current capital is still too small, and even the exchange can't be much. ”

"No, young master, after the 2nd and 3rd battalions complete the task, you will leave a part of the troops, and we can protect ourselves here, and you can go to Pontianak in the process of waiting for the upgrade, first exchange in Pontianak in small batches, but it will take 30 days to upgrade, and this time is idle."

"Okay, then let it be your arrangement, and I'll go to Pontianak when the time is right." Zhang Wei said.

The specific work now does not need Zhang Wei to intervene, Zhang Wei is also happy to be idle, in the past few days, the points are continuing to increase, although not a lot, but they are developing for the better.

One is that the economy of the United States is very developed now, and the United States is a country with many immigrants, it is not easy to find the background, if it is a synthetic British, it is easy to be exposed, and the Dutch do not dare to offend the Americans casually now. First, a high-ranking businessman, William James; 1 mid-level spy and 2 mid-level merchants, both passports of Americans, as attendants of William James; Let them go to Pontianak first, buy a house and a shop, and try to become a small bank there; Everyone knows that gold is produced on the island of Kalimantan, and it is not easy to cause misunderstandings when exchanging gold for silver in small quantities here.

On August 12, Zhang Wei sent Long Yi and Long Er and 1 squad of soldiers to protect James and others to Pontianak, and specially purchased 10,000 points of gold, 100 kilograms, and used two horses to carry gold and food and other baggage.

Zhang Wei explained to James: "When I went to Pontianak, I first wanted to buy a manor, there were no special requirements, but it had to be large, at least the size of a battalion could be stationed; Set up a comptoir or bank as an American, and then send a dragon back to pick me up, in the meantime I can exchange the rest of the gold for silver. ”

Zhang Wei believes that this matter should not be difficult, after all, the US economy is the largest in the world, and no one will bully Americans without a long eye.

10 days later, Long Yi came back and said that things were going well, he bought a farm estate in Pontianak, the transportation is also convenient, and he can live for many people, and now James has begun to contact businessmen from various countries and the local chamber of commerce, I will pick up the young master first.

In these 10 days, each battalion also achieved its strategic goal, and the spoils of war were also transported back one after another, and all of them were exchanged for points by Zhang Wei, except for leaving a part of the points used to exchange gold at Pontianak, and 5 battalions were combined into 5 battalions, all of which were temporarily stationed in Southko Town, and then carried out the next military operation after stabilization.

According to the territory occupied now, the township level is sufficient, but it has not yet reached the requirements for upgrading to the county level.

On the 24th, Zhang Wei first left a large number of living materials, weapons and ammunition, so that Fang Liang could gradually develop towards Mandor and Ndia during this time, and after occupying these two places, he would be able to meet the requirements of the county level. Then he and Ryuichi went to Pontianak.

Arriving at Pontianak on the 25th, James had by this time had carried out his work smoothly, and the merchant house mainly sold food and weapons and ammunition, and the weapon was the German Commission 1888 rifle. Also part-time gold to silver business, after consideration, James decided to exchange at a ratio of 1 to 32, cheaper than the market price, now the market price is about 1:33 ratio of exchange, hoping to do the amount first, otherwise there is no benefit, it is difficult to attract big customers.

Zhang Wei said: "James, you are a business talent, and I am not familiar with business, so I will not interfere with you in business matters, I just hope to open a business bank in Batavia as soon as possible, what support is needed, notify me in time, I will fully cooperate with your actions." ”

"Yes, thank you young master for your support." Although James is a foreigner's face, he is white-skinned and red-hearted, so don't doubt his loyalty.

After Zhang Wei arrived at Pontianak, James's main focus was on exchanging silver, and the results were very significant, because the principal was not much, James announced that it was still a small batch of experimental operations, exchanging up to 500 kilograms of gold per day, slowly accumulating popularity and credibility, and so on after the firm stabilized, it would meet everyone's requirements and gradually increase the number of exchanges.

The main reason is that the price set by James is very attractive, and many foreign businessmen also hope to exchange the silver they earn for gold and ship it back to China, so that the volume and weight are much smaller, it reduces a lot of trouble, that is, there is a profit of 3 points after the exchange and then selling, for precious metals, this is a big spread, so the exchange demand is still very large, but Zhang Wei's current principal is too little, can only develop slowly, but this slow is not really slow, every time it is exchanged, the principal can increase by more than 2 times, Profit is not comparable to ordinary trade.