Chapter 5 The Arrogance of the Italians
Zhang Chun has been standing in the courtyard with a cold face.
Liang Qichao couldn't see the joy and anger, and said for a long time: "For the people, no wonder you say that a weak country has no diplomacy." ”
Zhang Chun snorted coldly: "Give me another ten years, and I will answer with facts that they have no right to show off their power in our territory." ”
Wu Guanyin came back and listened to his wife talk about it, and looked at each other. And Chen Qingtong applauded loudly. I went to get a drink and came back, cooked by myself, and asked Gao Junman to invite Zhang Chun and his family to come over for a drink. Chen Qingtong is indeed a very cute person.
When Liang Sishun came back, he laughed happily when he entered the courtyard. The whole yard ran out to look at her. But she just smiled and said, "Refreshing".
It turned out that the two Italians were frightened by the Lizzi Hospital. There was no way to open the school and hospital, but the church still had to be repaired, and Sister Pak Boai asked if she could send the nun to study at the Liji Hospital.
Liang Sishun said: "Yes, you have to pay the tuition fee according to the regulations. However, you can only study at Shayang Liji Hospital, because Xinmin Liji Hospital is a research institution. ”
Zhang Chun smiled and said, "Gao, Ms. Liang is enough to be a female diplomat. The whole yard laughed.
Bishop Tian Ruiyu was severely knocked when he bought the right to use the land, and it was still the right to use, and the authority was fifty years, not ownership. The contract can be renewed after 50 years, and the land transfer fee is calculated according to the price of the current year, rather than continuing the original contract. If the visa is not renewed, all buildings on the land will be nationalized. People from the Urban Construction Bureau said that all people have only the right to use their land, and that the ownership of land belongs to the government. Foreigners have no say in this.
Tian Ruiyu was angry, when did the Holy See suffer such anger? He asked the best Italian designers to design the church, and he wanted the Chinese to see what architectural art is. Tian Ruiyu is very confident in the architecture and sculpture of her country.
Tian Ruiyu used this as a reason to ask Zhang Chun to give some preferential treatment, saying that a good building is a sign of a city, and Italian architects have the ability to do this. At least for now, Shayang's buildings are still stupid and clumsy. Practical, but not much of an artistic atmosphere.
Tian Ruiyu believes that the church should have the right to own such a building, and the government has no right to take it back.
Zhang Chun said that there could be no loosening of the land issue, and Shayang would not allow a disguised concession. However, certain tax incentives can be given to the Italian Chamber of Commerce.
Zhang Chun said to Tian Ruiyu: "All of Shayang's architectural designs must be reviewed by the Department of Architecture of Xinmin University, and designers need to explain their designs in the academic hall of the Department of Architecture of Xinmin University. Construction can only start after being approved by Xinmin University. ”
Tian Ruiyu readily agreed, believing that this was the best opportunity to spread Italian culture.
And Zhang Chun laughed, because with Zhang Chun's understanding of the crazy people at Xinmin University, they may not give up if they don't eat and wipe clean.
To this end, Zhang Chunyi gave three lectures on the Italian Renaissance in the Department of Architecture. Give them a foundation first. And in class, I said several times that the architecture department is a dirt hat, and the things designed are stupid and stupid, which is despised by the Italians. Tomorrow I will go to the Faculty of Liberal Arts to learn from the people in the Department of Fine Arts.
Speaking of culture, Zhang Chun remembered two very important figures.
Liang Qichao once mentioned it, but Xinmin University was not famous at that time, and he might not be able to invite him back if he wanted to.
But now it's different, so Zhang Chun commissioned Cai Yuanpei and Liang Qichao to write letters to Luo Zhenyu and Wang Guowei in Japan. The two men have in their hands the most important oracle bones of Yinxu, which is a national treasure of China, and it is best to bring them all back, and Xinmin University can set up a department of paleography and archaeology for the two.
Cai Yuanpei has published several articles by Wang Guowei in Xinmin University's internal "Xinmin Journal".
If there was any great discovery during the Republic of China, it was the oracle bones of Yinxu and Dunhuang. Dunhuang has no way, but the study of oracle bones has a good foundation.
Xinmin University has a certain balance every year due to the fact that it has nearly half of the county's land and some enterprise shares, as well as patent income, and this money is theoretically Zhang Chun's and belongs to the school for use and custody. Zhang Chun decided to set aside a part of the money every year to set up a Xinmin Reward Fund account in the cooperative bank to reward academic talents who have made outstanding contributions.
Zhang Chun thinks that maybe Luo Zhenyu and Wang Guowei can be qualified to win this award.
After the summer harvest, Zeng Simin believed that he had the strength to carry out the work of promoting the currency, and the minting of copper coins had been designed. It's just that Zeng Simin suggested that the minting and use of copper coins are troublesome, and if the country makes paper money, how should it be exchanged? So don't you accept banknotes? That's the country's legal tender. Silver coins are the "certificate" currency that stores them, and their value is much higher than that of copper coins and paper money, so there is no problem.
Zhang Chun asked Zeng Simin to find a way to tie the currency to the largest commodities, such as grain now. At present, as long as money and food are tied together, then there is double insurance. It's best to add gold. Cooperative banks should make a certain amount of gold reserves.
This is also the reason why Zhang Chun called for increasing grain reserves. As long as we have enough food in our hands, we can ensure the stability of the market and currency.
It's just a matter of the depreciation of paper money outside, so the issuance of money will slow down.
The exchange price of plum blossom coins should not be fixed in one position, and it is necessary to understand the transaction price of plum blossom coins in commercial banks and banks, and make appropriate adjustments.
Sure enough, the cooperative bank issued an announcement that the price of Xinmin certificate currency was artificially inflated on the black market. Therefore, from now on, the issuance of new new civil certificate currency will increase the exchange price by 0.05%. The new certificate coin bears the inscription 1915. The old certificate currency will be recycled at the original price and will not be issued again.
When this work reached September, the old plum blossom coins were basically recovered, and a total of 700,000 yuan was issued, and finally there were about 5,000 wordless plum blossom coins that were collected. Because this plum blossom coin is so good-looking, some people are reluctant to exchange it back.
The new plum blossom coin was issued at once, and it was sold out by the commercial bank and other banks within three days. This is more than double the total amount of actual goods traded in Shayang Town, and it is obviously used by others as a reserve currency, Zeng Simin can only announce that each person per day can only exchange a maximum of one hundred plum blossom coins, and the exchange amount will be reduced.
This is just a drill, after all, this is not a quasi-currency, Zeng Simin suddenly found that he was not ready to issue real currency from the perspective of personnel, technology, and theory.
After Zeng Simin consulted Zhang Chun, he decided to set up a policy management center to study market fluctuations.
The military industry institute sent a research report on the Glory, and they restored part of the technical data about the glory keel, steam engine, etc., believing that this wooden structure of the ship will eventually be replaced by an all-steel structure hull. The main and secondary guns of the Glory are very backward, too bulky, slow in rate of fire, unable to rotate flexibly, and have obvious shortcomings. However, a complete working radio transmitting and receiving device was found. There are also technical specifications, and the electronics institute is overjoyed.
Shayang's communication with the outside world was only one telegraph line, and the Wuhan Telegraph Bureau did not care about what Liu Tie left behind, and used an old-fashioned telegraph. The electronic institute was barely able to use it, and later bought a few radio transmission and reception equipment, but they were all backward products that were not used by others.
The one left behind by the Glory is the favorite spark radio station of American radio enthusiasts, and the tube regeneration receiver, at this time in the United States, the establishment of the radio alliance, the country has not yet carried out unified control. The best thing on the Honor is this. And then there is the steel of armor and artillery. There are also plenty of maps, naval drills, and technical books. Due to the tradition of Xinmin University, any piece of paper left behind by the Glory has been preserved.
Zhang Chun asked the military industry to ignore it first, and to thoroughly understand the radio transmission and reception technology before speaking. Green Lake's research institute began to run at full speed. The tubes used in this machine were studied as a focus. Xinmin Commercial Bank cooperated to see if it could find a way to get this kind of electron tube outside. On the one hand, the Institute of Electronics has to find a way to develop its own, and on the other hand, the characteristics of transistors are also being studied at an accelerated pace. Guarding such a large and high-quality quartz mine did nothing, and the people of the Green Lake Research Institute felt ashamed.