Hearing Zhao Dongyun say this suddenly, and his tone didn't seem to be very good, this made Xiong Xiling on the side feel a lot of pressure, although he thought that he hadn't done anything wrong, but after following Zhao Dongyun for a long time, the more he could feel the huge pressure brought by Zhao Dongyun.

In the eyes of many military and political dignitaries under him, when Zhao Dongyun inspected the barracks and schools, he treated the soldiers and students very kindly, and asking the cold and asking for warmth could make the soldiers and the school feel Zhao Dongyun's concern almost every month.

But they know that Zhao Dongyun has never been a person who treats his subordinates well and welcomes him barefoot, and it is difficult for officials, especially senior military and political dignitaries, to get any feeling like a spring breeze from Zhao Dongyun, even if Zhao Dongyun calls them mostly brothers, but whoever listens to the tone knows that he is being polite to you, if you are not sensible and directly reply to Brother Zhao, Ziyang or something like that, the end will be very tragic......

Perhaps this attitude is difficult to get along with in the eyes of ordinary people, but from another point of view, Zhao Dongyun's attitude has made many officials, especially those in their fifties and sixties, regard Zhao Dongyun as an object of allegiance, rather than a young man under the age of thirty.

"Dispose of all these fixed assets and return the funds, the batch of artillery ordered by the military from Germany will arrive next month, and the balance has not been paid. In addition, there are quite a few orders from the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, and the board of directors there has sent a report to me, saying that we have defaulted on their payment for 600,000 taels of silver, and if we delay it any longer, their funds will have difficulty in turnover. ”

Fuyuanji factory is a commercial enterprise, it has to purchase all kinds of raw materials to produce ordnance, pay workers' wages, not to mention that the monthly salary of tens of thousands of workers is not a small amount, now the various ordnance products of the fuyuanji factory are purchased by the army, if the army only takes ordnance and does not give money, it will not take a few months this fuyuanji factory will have to go bankrupt, if the fuyuanji factory is bankrupt, who will give him Zhao Dongyun to produce arms?

Xiong Xiling is unwilling, he is already short of funds in hand, and the millions of fixed assets confiscated under his hands are all good assets, and a large part of them are still ready for other uses, if this is filled into the bottomless pit of military spending, then what about the Fengtian Bank that he worked so hard to build? What about currency issuance?

Seeing that Zhao Dongyun was about to invest this batch of funds in military spending, Xiong Xiling couldn't care about anything else, so he hurriedly said: "This batch of funds was originally used as paper money promotion funds, plus Fengtian Bank's own funds, which can barely set up a shelf for paper money issuance, if this is misappropriated, I'm afraid that paper money will be issued!" ”

When Zhao Dongyun heard this, he didn't answer anything directly, but looked at Jia Bingyun, the president of Fengtian Bank: "President Jia, how are you preparing for the issuance of banknotes over there?" Are there any difficulties with the principal? ”

Jia Bingyun, a native of Xuzhou, Jiangsu, went to the United Kingdom to study at his own expense on the eve of the First Wu New Year, returned to China after graduation to take over the family business, and successively reformed his own industry. In particular, his family and the Zhao family are in Xuzhou, and they have many friendships in the past, and one of the daughters of Uncle Zhao Dongyun is married to Jia Bingyun's eldest brother, so in a certain way, these two families can be regarded as in-laws.

The Zhao family followed Zhao Dongyun's career in the north, and at the same time founded Fuyuan Yarn Factory and Fuyuan Machinery Factory, they also found Jia Bingyun many times to finance and join shares, and his people have shares in many subsidiaries of Fuyuan Company, and also jointly invested with Fuyuan Company to set up a commercial bank in Shanghai, called 'Fulong Bank', although the scale of the bank is not large, and its business is limited to Shanghai, but this is also the first time that Fuyuan Company has set foot in the financial industry.

Because of the close relationship between his people and the Zhao family, and at the same time he is a rare financial talent, so after Zhao Dongyun founded the Fengtian Guanyin, because he deeply felt that although the group of foreign officials in the Finance Bureau can handle government affairs, but the financial play is still not as good as those professionals, so he considered hiring professional financial talents to take care of the Fengtian Guanyin number, at the beginning he was ready to directly call the financial director of Fuyuan Company, Henriested, to be the general manager of Fengtian Bank, that Henryshide has senior financial qualifications. Fuyuan Company was directly hired from Wall Street in the United States to carry out financial restructuring, and after the reorganization of Fuyuan Industries, he took advantage of the situation to serve as the financial director of Fuyuan Company.

But this person is an American, let an American be the head of the central bank of the three eastern provinces, always feel wrong, very suspicious of betraying the country, so Zhao Dongyun had to find someone else, and finally took a fancy to this Jia Bingyun, who has a close relationship with the Zhao family, this person's financial management ability is naturally not as good as Henriesster, who is hired by Fuyuan Company every year and gives rich incentives to stay, but compared with those who play finance and finance in contemporary China, Jia Bingyun is also considered to be a first-class level.

Jia Bingyun said: "The issuance of banknotes has entered the final stage, the printing machine imported from the United States has begun to be commissioned, and it is expected to be completed within three months for mass production, and the steel gravure master hired from the United States has arrived in Yingkou in the first half of the year, and has begun the engraving work, and it is expected that the first batch of samples will be produced next month!" ”

"In order to ensure the credit value of paper money, the bank uses the existing deposit of silver as the principal, and at present the bank acts as an agent for the government treasury of 5 million taels of silver, in addition to absorbing 24 million taels of corporate deposits, 8 million taels of private household deposits, a total of 37 million taels of treasury silver, and a total of about 130,000 pounds sterling in gold, yen, US dollars, pounds, rubles, and other valuable gold reserves."

"The above inventory of silver will be used as a deposit for the issuance of banknotes, and the face value of the issued banknotes is one yuan, five jiao, two jiao, one jiao, five cents, two cents, and one cent, and the value of the new banknotes will be compared with the new silver dollars and copper dollars of the Mint, and the one-yuan banknotes will be exchanged for one silver dollar.

It is expected that the first issue of banknotes will be issued at 100 million yuan! ”

After Jia Bingyun said this, his words changed: "However, although the reserves for the issuance of banknotes are sufficient, the current branches of our bank are still too few, and most of the branches are concentrated in Fengtian Province, if you want to fully issue banknotes, it is necessary to fully lay branches in Jilin, Heilongjiang and Guannei areas, and it will be very difficult to complete the branch laying work within half a year with the existing funds of our bank!" ”

Although the bank can use the money as a reserve to issue banknotes, it can also be used for loans, but it must not be directly spent, because the money is all customers, not the bank's own, and Fengtian Bank's own assets are not much, and most of the assets are fixed assets, and the activity funds that can be freed up are actually about one million taels, so to open Fengtian Bank in every prefecture and county in the three eastern provinces in a short period of time, it needs a lot of financial support. It also costs money to open a branch!

After listening to Zhao Dongyun: "The issue of banknotes is related to the overall financial situation of the three eastern provinces, and it is natural to pay attention to it, but the issuance of banknotes can not be said to be a step to the sky, always need to be taken step by step, since Fengtian Bank has not many branches in Heilongjiang and Jilin and Guannei, then the issuance of banknotes will be issued in Fengtian Province first, and this branch will be opened there, and then issued there, without rushing overnight all over the Guantian!" ”

I have to eat one bite at a time, and I want to open Fengtian Bank to every corner inside and outside the customs of the three eastern provinces, and I want to issue hundreds of millions of banknotes at one time.

Zhao Dongyun said so, Xiong Xiling naturally didn't know what to say, and immediately said that after converting the confiscated assets into cash, he said that he would allocate most of them to the military as funds.

As the time passed, it was soon noon, Zhao Dongyun, who had a morning meeting, looked at everyone, it was not easy to call so many people over, anyway, the meeting had to continue in the afternoon, so they were not allowed to go back to eat, and immediately ordered people to set up a table in the front hall of the front yard, and he and the princes present had lunch together.

Due to the large number of people, there are almost 20 people who are left for dinner, so the people naturally do not make a large Chinese-style round table, so that there are too many people to sit down, but directly placed on a Western-style rectangular table.

Zhao Dongyun's housekeeper and several other subordinates followed Zhao Dongyun to live in the Li family for a few years, and this Chinese or Western-style banquet was naturally captured, and after a while, even Steward Xu took off the horse coat, but changed into a Western-style tuxedo, and took the maids to serve the food.

But this also seems strange, generally speaking, this kind of Western-style banquet is served by male waiters, but in China, the waiter is replaced by a waiter, in addition to this kind of banquet abroad, there are generally women present, but in China, even in the Western-style banquet is different between men and women, ordinary banquets are a table for male guests, and another table for female guests, not to mention that the big guys have not brought any family members today, so there are all men in a large table.

Just from this lunch, you can see the so-called 'combination of Chinese and Western', many foreign things have changed their taste when they arrive in China, not only in terms of living habits, but also in thoughts!

After everyone finished eating, Zhao Dongyun let everyone sit on the sofa in the study next to him in order to ease the atmosphere, and prepared for a symposium.

After sitting down, the maids served wine, cigars and cigarettes, a few smokers did not have too many scruples, picked up cigars or cigarettes and smoked, although the atmosphere was relaxed, but the business did not stop, Zhao Dongyun sat down and also picked up a cigarette and smoked, which washed his mouth and said: "Although the Agriculture and Forestry Bureau and the Finance Bureau can squeeze out millions, but it is still far from enough for our financial gap next year. After all, we can find a way out of the current financial predicament! ”