Chapter 145: The Great Spread of New Banknotes
The welfare lottery is considered to be a big profit, not only allowing many lucky lottery players to get a lot of income, but also making the Hope Project Foundation make a lot of money.
The foundation, which had made a lot of money, finally started to take action, presided over by Kou Baimen, and personally went to Tibet to carry out the first poverty alleviation activities, targeting poor villages in Tibet's annexed areas to alleviate poverty and support local education.
The Daily reported on the whole process, and as promised by the Foundation at the same beginning, the whole process, all the financial expenses, were transparent and subject to the joint supervision of all the people. Someone who cares about it plans to find a mistake, but the foundation's accounts are handled by Gu Hengbo very reasonably, so that even if others want to find a mistake, they basically count too much because they are stupid X, and if they count less, it seems that they are not close to people, and in the end they can only hold back the word 'service'.
After the first poverty alleviation, more than 50 hope primary schools have been built in Tibet, and the teachers are hired by the foundation with high salaries and a service period of 10 years. At the same time, 20 new Hope Middle Schools have been built, and teachers are also hired with high salaries; A new Tibet Hope University was built, and teachers were recruited from all over the country, of course, at high salaries; There are more than 50 new cement main roads and 100 secondary dirt roads; More than 20 canals and waterways have been repaired, and a number of emergency living resources have been provided to compatriots in Tibetan areas.
This poverty alleviation has greatly improved the local living environment, although it has not made the people's lives better, but its impact has been for generations. In this regard, many people think that this is teaching people to fish, which is the real royal road to poverty alleviation.
Interestingly, after the poverty alleviation activities, the local people actually appeared in the local religion that believed in the Hope Project, or the local people spontaneously changed Tibetan Buddhism to Kou Baimen, the Minister of Love and Support of the Hope Project, who was called Hope Niangniang and belonged to Taoism.
There is no way, after all, according to the newspaper, Zhang Hongbin seems to have consciously given preferential treatment to Taoism, although he does not suppress other sects, but after standardization, the interests of Buddhism or other sects have shrunk significantly, and there is no difference between suppression. Therefore, many people think that Zhang Hongbin should support Taoism, and counting Hope Niangniang under Taoism is actually a kind of favorite.
The promotion of poverty alleviation has made many people truly confirm that the Hope Project is indeed an institution that does practical things for the people, and the most important thing is that it really invests the money it earns into the people who need it, and does not let anyone enrich themselves. For an institution to be able to do this, it is enough for everyone to be recognized.
The people's donations began to increase, and after repeated propaganda and public opinion bombardment, many people felt that their lives were good, but there were still many compatriots living in the water and fire, and the day was precarious. We are all Chinese compatriots in the same lineage, no matter what nationality we used to be, now we are united under the blood of the Chinese nation and under the national flag of the Chinese People's Republic, so it is also appropriate to help each other.
More donations,And the collection of fucai is more profitable,The investment department has also begun to operate smoothly.
At the beginning, many people also questioned whether the investment department was using the people's money to make profits, and whether it was an act of enriching their own pockets? As a result, the Foundation said that the Fund was a way to broaden the Foundation's sources of poverty alleviation funds. Relying only on social donations and fucai sales passive money is too passive,The Foundation should take the initiative to develop income,Strive to have more money,To help people who need them.
Maintaining the consistent principle of fairness and fairness, all investments are basically open, so the public can inquire about the specific process. At the very least, the Foundation isn't spending their money casually.
Zhang Hongbin's Project Hope Foundation is almost an irreproducible existence. At least until the level of social supervision has fully reached the level of the republic, and the level of science and technology can be synchronized, no one can imitate it.
Daming is not good,Chongzhen intends to issue fucai,But there is no coding machine no identification machine,How to deal with fakes,Or how to ensure that the selected number has not been altered or something,It's a difficult problem to overcome. Not to mention, in today's Ming Dynasty, many people still look down on the so-called untouchables in their hearts, and the untouchables are also called ant people or grass people, and they are talking about the existence of zài that will not die. It's good that the poorest people die, and it won't affect anything anyway, and in ten or eight years, there will be several times as many people to fill in. Spending money on these untouchables, let alone Chongzhen, Li Luo didn't think it was cost-effective.
After all, most people can approve of such a thing as inviting people to buy people's hearts, and the remaining 30%-45% of the untouchables can't stop it whether they recognize it or not.
By the time the seventh welfare lottery went on sale, many people suddenly found that the range of money used by the people around them had expanded a lot. But then again, the jackpot of this lottery is paid with a lottery, and banknotes also have better innate conditions than coins. As long as the government's credibility is in place, then switching to paper money is actually recognized by many people.
At this time, the settlement of civil servants' salaries in various places was also changed to banknotes. Because the bank has enough money to exchange for huàn coins, it is basically guaranteed that the value of the banknotes will not be depreciated. And many people can see that both Congress and the royal family are actively promoting this kind of banknote. In order to gain extra points for themselves in politics in the future, and then be able to obtain the qualification to enter the Congress, civil servants at all levels also officially accepted this kind of banknote.
In fact, in addition to being afraid of fire accidents, it is indeed easier to carry this kind of banknote than to carry gold and silver, and most importantly, it is also convenient to settle.
The most speechless thing is that the Republic issued an order that when the chambers of commerce in various places settle the payment for goods or buy goods, if they use paper money, they can get a discount of 85%. If you trade simply with gold, silver or coins, you will receive a portion of the 'fire consumption'. Isn't it just for money that a businessman does business? For the sake of a penny, they can all be calculated, let alone such a large amount? You must know that the transaction volume between merchants from all over the world and the Zhang Chamber of Commerce will never be less!
Three days later, Wei said that it recognized the banknotes from the Republic, saying that they could be used in various parts of the Great Wei and had legal validity. The most important thing is that the Great Wei Dynasty is now full of banks in the Republic, and it is still possible to exchange paper money for huàn coins or gold and silver. However, from now on, if the banknotes are exchanged for huàn gold and silver, the amount of gold and silver exchanged for huàn will be reduced accordingly, and the part that is less will be called 'service charge'.
Convenient, and strong, and most importantly, not wanting to lose money, so the Wei State also began to slowly use paper money.
The economy, especially finance, sometimes grows itself quickly. With the spread of paper money in the Republic and Wei, merchants in Dashun and Daming also demanded that the currency be allowed to be used for settlements. Li Luo wanted to refuse, but many people in the Congress said that it was nothing to use, at least use this thing to buy things in the Republic, and you can enjoy discounts, right? And this banknote has always been strong, only appreciated and not depreciated, so why not use it?!
Li Luo wanted to refute it, but his theoretical knowledge was not enough, so he could only acquiesce. On top of that, as head of the intelligence agency, he has little say in Congress. At the very least, everyone was unhappy with him, after all, another job of the Intelligence Bureau was to spy on them.
Finally, under the impetus of all sides, the Republic of Shun opened banks in Daming and Dashun, and began the road of great popularization of banknotes.
It is conceivable that when everyone recognizes and uses this thing, it is when the Republic holds Da Ming and Da Shun in their hands.
When the time comes, they won't be able to jump up!