December is already the real winter, although the winter in the south is much warmer than the north, compared to the low temperature of minus 30-40 degrees Celsius in the winter of Outer Mongolia, it is warmer like spring, but compared to summer, the days are still much shorter.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the sun turned westward, and as soon as five o'clock passed, the sunlight gradually lost its trace, and the night began to rule the sky and the earth.

The soldiers of Zhou Luobu are cleaning up the barracks, this is Zhao Yun's rule, if the barracks is dirty, they have to hit the board. And Zhou Luo turned a blind eye to Zhao Yun's obvious meddling in the army, after all, this group of guys sometimes turned the barracks into vegetable markets, stolen shoes and stinky socks flying all over the sky, and they had to take care of it.

The barracks of the barracks there were all renovated after Zhao Yun came, with a large space and glass windows. A row has a barracks, each shift has a large room, shares a toilet and washroom, and is in the form of a large bunk.

On the opposite side of the Chase Shop against the wall, there is a large row of tables and chairs, on which are placed soldiers' daily necessities such as face plates and face towels, and the cabinets below can store everyone's personal belongings. This is all Zhao Yun according to the university dormitory of later generations, according to the cat and the tiger for them, put it in this era, that is the specifications of the mansion!

On a wall near the door, there is also a pasting place, but it is not the army's internal affairs regulations, but the posters of the current stars!

Zhao Yun also turned a blind eye to this, those stars all had big round faces, and Zhao Yun was dizzy when he saw it. If they were their own team, they would definitely tear them off, but they were not their own team after all, and if the requirements were too strict, the Qi Overseers would also come to find trouble for themselves! Just do some phenomenal engineering well.

This time it was almost the New Year, and after Zhao Yun and Zhou Luo discussed, they gave all the defenders a ten-day holiday. This is a good thing that has never happened before, and naturally everyone is happy. But it is impossible for everyone to go away, and they are divided into three groups and have a holiday in turn, and all the soldiers have no problem with this.

After all, go home! Although it is not a return to his hometown, Zhao Yun got a new military uniform after he came, and he was also heroic after wearing it!

Weapons, Zhao Yun didn't say it, and Zhou Luo didn't allow them to take them out of the barracks. In these years, if there is a gun, he is the king of grass, in case a few people collude and go up the mountain and fall into the grass, it is not Zhao Yun who is crying, but Zhou Luo. Zhou Luo has long regarded this team as his own private property, who moves and who is in a hurry!

However, this is the last time they will be asked to go back before the Chinese New Year, although many people have brought back the military salaries they usually saved, but Zhao Yun still ordered a large stack of "food stamps" to be issued in front of the barracks, yes, it is food stamps.

Each person has a large stack, with a denomination of two hundred catties.

This is a troubled time, except for Yuan Datou, there are a lot of messy banknotes, and Zhao Yun saw it once when he collected taxes. Even physical money is bizarre.

Silver, it turned out to be a silver ingot of the Qing Dynasty, as well as a copper coin of Xuantong, Zhao Yun was speechless for a while!

In desperation, Zhao Yun could only issue food stamps to the soldiers for timber grain stores, after all, after Zhao Yun came here, they were set up in various towns, and some large villages were also set up.

Even if there is no village that has been established, you can go to a nearby place to exchange huàn, which is much more convenient than dragging it back from the barracks. So as soon as the food stamps came out, they were still quite popular, and this also represented a status symbol.

Zhou Luo also ignored this, because in this year, he got a hundred times more than these in Zhao Yun! His own subordinates also know a little about this, this eats meat by themselves, and his subordinates have to drink some soup! So I just turned a blind eye.

As for whether this grain stamp can be used as hard currency in the future, Zhao Yun has no plan to do so, so he has not opened a business to exchange huàn money.

At present, it is generally issued internally and is used as a reward for meritorious officials. Externally, it is only used when doing business with Boss Yao in Changshu.

As for Outer Mongolia, since they are still tribal, this thing is not as good as gold and silver in them, after all, their currency is generally used more internally, and Zhao Yun has helped them with it externally.

On a relatively remote street in the west of the county seat, Zhao Yun was pacing slowly, followed by a large number of guards.

I haven't been out for a long time, Zhao Yun looked at this horizontal street extending from the main road of the county, and couldn't help but burst into interest, and the ghost made a god walk in.

It is a real small street in the south of the Yangtze River, with a river on one side and a shop on the other. The stone paved with large stone slabs in Qingqing has a unique Jiangnan character, and various signboards and advertisements are hung horizontally and vertically above the shop.

Some of them have been planted with signs marked with characteristic symbols, some have been planted with colorful flags, some shops have already opened, and some places are still being renovated and renovated, but none of them are idle.

After Zhao Yun came here, the monthly auction house drove the commercial development of this small county, and the fastest growing ones were hostels, restaurants and tea houses!

At the intersection of Jiaoqiao Street, there is a newly completed tea house. This place was originally the place where the dragon was, but in the Jin Dynasty, it was killed by the local "three evils" Zhou Zhu, as for Zhou, he was also a great general, who could kill Jiaolong! Can it be bullish!

The first floor of the tea house is a place to sell tea, and the second and third floors are tea houses, which are newly opened industries of the Cao Gang and used as a liaison station. Because the Cao Gang travels all year round in the east, west, north and south, and people from all walks of life have friendships with them, this is also the most popular tea house!

As a consumer product, tea is consumed in large quantities in various places, and Yixing is rich in tea, and locally produced black tea is even among the top ten black teas, so people who come here to do business will naturally come to taste it. The tea house opened by the Cao Gang is naturally prosperous in business and has a wide range of financial resources. At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, they originally wanted to give Zhao Yun a generous gift, after all, this place is nominally Zhao Yun's territory, and they will still rely on Zhao Yun, the big money lord, to eat in the coming year.

But Zhao Yun didn't accept their gifts, but only put forward a request that food stamps could also be used in the store, so that the food stamps could be used in addition to selling tea. For this matter, the Cao Gang originally wanted to refuse, after all, this food stamp was just a "paper" issued by Zhao Yun himself, and its value was debatable. However, seeing that Zhao Yun stipulated the follow-up matters of one day and one settlement, the Cao Gang agreed and set up a place in a corner of the store to redeem huàn.

In fact, because the demand for tea in Outer Mongolia is very large, Zhao Yun has begun to encourage the people here to plant tea, and spend a lot of money to breed tea trees, ready to promote.

Of course, these things have also attracted several local squires to do it together! Their capital was brought in to promote the cultivation of tea as a cash crop in hilly areas to increase the output value of the local people. At the same time, it is necessary to avoid a situation in which prices skyrocket as soon as the acquisition is made.

Zhao Yun wandered around, and involuntarily walked to the front of this tea house, and the sharp-eyed owner of the tea house had already seen the route of this "big gold lord", and immediately led Zhao Yun to the private room on the third floor.

The second floor is full of tables and tables, and the people who sit are some merchants of the Celestial Empire in this era, and the third floor is completely different, all of them are private rooms one by one, separated by wooden boards, and the door is hung with thin bamboo curtains, faintly unable to see the characters in the room, revealing a sense of mystery, and does not affect the lighting effect, and the interior is also arranged with some green bonsai embellishments.

The average private room has only a small table that can accommodate four or five people, similar to the tea bar of later generations. But the innermost room was huge, big enough for twenty or so people to gather for a meeting.

After turning around, Zhao Yun found a private room facing the street and sat down, from here you can faintly see the city gate building, order a pot of local black tea, Zhao Yun took out two banknotes, and pondered by himself.

After contacting several heroes in Outer Mongolia, Zhao Yun had more thoughts in his mind, such as the six bundles of sacks! That's right, half of the twelve sacks captured from the Russians, and some real yen.

In fact, there is no need to compare, just hold the real yen in your hand and you can feel the difference. The printing level of the yen is relatively high, especially in the papermaking aspect, using Japan's unique product "Sanya Leather Pulp" as the raw material, the paper is tough and has a special luster, it is light yellow, and the larger the denomination, the darker the color. Even during World War II, the United States tried every possible means to counterfeit the yen in order to attack Japan's financial system, but it did not succeed in the early days. But Zhao Yun knows that these unique products of Japan are actually three kinds of Japanese specialty trees, and in the early years, a master who studied finance said when he was in Kan Dashan that these three kinds of trees can find their substitutes in China! The question is what are the three types? It seems that too much time has passed, and Zhao Yun's memory has been blurred.

Since 1886, Japan has adopted the gold standard and issued Japanese bank bills that can be exchanged for huàn gold coins, which means that the Meiji government set the value of one yen at the equivalent of 1,500 milligrams of pure gold, and there was a sub-unit of currency, equivalent to 0.01 yen. Banknotes that can be exchanged for huàn gold, you say it's worth it! But the problem is that during the First World War, Japan abolished the gold standard, so now these yen, even if they are real, are still a pile of paper.

However, with the reminder of the Russians, Zhao Yun handed over the mark, franc, pound, and yen to the camp market, and asked them to try if they could learn from the experience of the Russians.

It doesn't matter if it becomes the best, and it doesn't matter if it doesn't. Of course, this matter is left to the European Legion, after all, their printing technology is the most superb, and if the camp's technology is not enough, they can also find someone on the spot to provide technical support.

Thinking about the group of robbers who got so many good things from Huaxia, Zhao Yun was very angry! And in the future, Huaxia will spend a lot of money to redeem them, I really don't know what to say! If you can use these "papers" to exchange things back, Zhao Yun still agrees.

With a little clue about things, Zhao Yun finally breathed a sigh of relief. Picking up the teacup and taking a sip of tea, Zhao Yun was suddenly fascinated by something in front of him.

In addition to the hot tea, there was a plate of fruit on the table, but the only delicate fruit bowl was oranges and apples.

Zhao Yun patted his head, "How did I forget this?" ”