When Liu Feng returned to the Prime Minister's Office, he urgently ordered the parliamentary ministers to convene a parliament and an enlarged meeting. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because I don't know how the country is developing in the past half a year, and whether there are still unnecessary troubles.

At the same time, officials from the six ministries were also present to participate in the first enlarged plenary meeting of the Han Empire specially convened by Liu Feng.

Liu Feng picked up the domestic documents and looked at them, and his head was big.

There is no change in the Xiliang Republic, but the gold mines, silver mines and coal mines and iron ore in the Western Regions are mining rapidly, that is to say, Xiliang can temporarily be self-sufficient, the Xiliang Republic has a balance of 600,000 gold in its finances, and most of the materials purchased are to use the paper money earned by Xiliang exports, and the Xiliang Republic has established the Chang'an Musket Field, becoming the first country to produce guns, with an annual output of about 100,000 pieces, mainly assault rifles, which are said to have a range of up to 500 meters.

Since the occupation of the Western Regions by the Republic of Xiliang, cotton production has surged, the silk cotton industry has developed rapidly, and machinery manufacturing has been steadily promoted.

Cao Mengde, Zhang Yan, Zhang Yang, and Bai Bo formed the United Republic of Bingzhou, which not only occupied the entire territory of Bingzhou, but also occupied the upper reaches of the Yellow River, the Hetao Plain, and Hedong, Hexi, and Hanoi in the Huqiang region.

The economic development of Bingzhou is very fast, relying on the abundant coal resources, almost the entire world's coal mining resources export monopoly, in addition to the iron ore and machinery manufacturing capacity of Bingzhou, located in the Shangdang area of the Bingzhou manufacturing steam shipyard began to put into production, mainly producing steam ships.

Bingzhou also developed its own weapons, and the state infantry assault and seizure, with an annual output of 50,000 and a range of 400 meters.

The Republic of Jingzhou has not changed much, except for the Xiangyang shipyard, the textile industry and machinery manufacturing have developed rapidly, mainly importing iron ore and coal resources, and mainly exporting tea, porcelain, and raw silk. This can also bring a lot of foreign exchange earnings to the Republic of Jingzhou.

With the establishment of the United Kingdom in the southeast, Liu Bei, Liu Yao, Yan Baihu, and Wang Lang established a coalition government, which mainly monopolized the entire export market of raw silk, tea, and iron ore, and became the country with the largest trade inflow.

The Southeast United Nations is also known as the Republic of Yangzhou, and its capital is Suzhou.

The Republic of Yangzhou not only established the Suzhou Assault Rifle Yard, with an annual output of 180,000 muskets, but also built the Fujian Shipyard, which mainly produces dual-use ships and warships, becoming the only one in the entire Chinese land.

Sun Ce had long since withdrawn from the rule in the southeast, and now only occupies Nanhai County and Toe, and established the Lingnan Republic, whose export is mainly tea, porcelain, etc., and the trade share is low, so it is difficult to implement a grand development strategy.

The Republic of Jizhou has become the only country that has stagnated, Yuan Shao has made little progress except for occupying a part of the grassland in the north, and the industry is mainly based on the silk weaving industry, smelting, mainly imported from other forces, it is difficult to maintain a huge armament, the construction of Jizhou Musket Field meets the needs of part of the army, but the output is only 30,000 per year, and the firing range is only 300 meters, which is too far from the other two strongmen.

The Republic of Yizhou lacks an effective outlet to the sea in terms of economic development, so it mainly exports iron ore, coal and smelting and mining gold, and raw silk is also produced, but it can only meet domestic demand.

Huainan Republic, Zhou Yu continued to attack, the sphere of influence crossed the Yangtze River, arrived near Jiujiang County, Hefei's machinery manufacturing, the production of assault guns soared, the annual output of 150,000 assault guns, the firing range of 600 meters, far ahead of other princes.

In addition, the output of raw silk in the Republic of Huainan has increased by a huge amount, but the development of the textile industry is indeed unsatisfactory, because the Republic of Huainan mainly earns the difference by pouring some things back and forth, and is unwilling to open factories.

The Gongsun family of the Liaodong Republic mainly exported coal and iron ore, and the border trade surged because of its proximity to Goguryeo, Fuyu and other places.

The Han Empire was not optimistic, and the import volume surged, because of the enthusiasm of private factories, which made a large number of cotton spinning and textile factories in the interior, coupled with the development of the Li family's locomotive manufacturing, Zou's ironmaking and machinery manufacturing, and a large number of raw silk and tea were imported from the southeast. The import of iron, copper, and coal from the Huainan Republic led to a deficit in the trade volume of the Han Empire.

It's not the way to go on like this!

In terms of the banks opened by the Han Empire in various places, the majority of the banks in the Han Empire were mainly based on deposits, while in the capitals of other countries, they were mainly based on loans.

In other words, the Han Empire is using itself to maintain the development of various republics, bringing only meager benefits, and most of them are siphoned off by the capitalists of the vassal states, which is not a good phenomenon.

The gold standard today has brought about a sharp increase in the downside, and that is the problem of inflation, because Liu Feng's money printing machine is constantly printing paper money and buying raw materials and minerals from various republics, and the direct effect is that the republics collect a large amount of paper money from the Han Empire through exports, and then exchange these earned paper money from the Han Empire for gold coins through the banks opened by the Han Empire in their own countries.

In addition, because of the large import of raw materials, the Huainan Republic and the Southeast United Nations used a means of gathering and squeezing to grab wealth from the Han Empire.

What is called gathering and squeezing, that is, in order to maximize the interests of capital, the general principle of these domestic capitalists is to hoard raw silk or coal mines before they go on the market, so that buyers have to buy them at a high price, so that the price is raised little by little, and the Han Empire cannot afford to play with them!

If this continues, the gold coins stored in the treasury will decrease little by little, and when one day it cannot be paid, the economy on which the Han Empire depends will collapse, and the credibility of the Han currency will decline.

The direct impact of the decline is the urgent collapse of the Han Empire, then the Han Empire's desire to use finance to shear sheep will be frustrated, Liu Feng is unwilling to see the emergence of such an extreme phenomenon, but the current economic situation is a large amount of gold and silver flowing into the vassal states, which is a threat to the potential economy, and may even affect the rule of the entire Han Empire because of the root cause, this situation must be changed.

Due to the level of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, gold was in circulation, but silver was very small, and the reason was that the mining of silver was very small, mainly obtained through foreign trade.

Then it is necessary to break the gold standard system of each country and replace it with the use of a huge amount of silver as the standard currency.

Nowadays, with the loss of gold coins in the Han Empire, a large amount of gold has flowed into the vassal states, making gold coins the most important equivalent, and because of the shortage of silver, the vassal states have a bit of an intention to give up silver.

The gold did not disappear in a vacuum, but moved from one country to another.

This is what Liu Feng does not want to see, because his gold and silver standard system includes a 20-to-1 gold system and a 4-to-1 silver system.

The ratio of gold and silver is about 5 to one, so how to successfully promote silver and recover the lost gold will be a long-term task, and defeating finance means controlling everything.

Liu Feng didn't expect that in the past half a year, the princes would be very good at playing! He actually earned gold and silver from his own hands by such means! (To be continued.) )