Chapter 458: Tainan Branch, promoting border area tickets
The next morning.
Wang Ying is a very busy man now. As the top leader of Tainan District Government, he has great power and has jurisdiction over eight counties in the district.
This meant that Zhou Weihan had something important to discuss, otherwise he would never see anyone.
At around ten o'clock in the morning, Wang Ying and Hu Jingyun arrived at Yama Mountain.
"Lao Zhou, why did you ask me to come over?" After Wang Ying said that, he saw Hu Jingyun from the Economic Work Department and had a vague suspicion in his heart.
"I asked you to come over, there must be something important!" Zhou Weihan then told the two people present about what happened while eating noodles in Pingshun.
"The pilot work in Shexian County has been going on for three months. How is the progress? Taxation is the economic source of the base area. This is a top priority. How can we implement the border ticket without taxation?" Zhou Weihan asked.
"Old Zhou, carrying out economic work in the base area is no different from military operations. The territory we occupy belongs to us. Economic matters cannot be rushed!"
"During this period, comrades in each county office have been preparing for tax determination, verifying the population of each village and per capita annual income. These things cannot be done easily!" Wang Ying complained at first.
"Is there any progress?"
Taxation is a local matter, and even if Zhou Weihan holds the title of deputy director of the district, he should not be too involved.
But now is the war era, and all resources are being poured into the army. How can we feed the army without money and food? How can we develop the base area normally without forming a normal economic system?
"The people in Wuyi, Wu'an, and Shexian County are very cooperative, and the review work has been completed. Licheng, Lucheng, Pingshun, Cixian, and Lin County have just been occupied by our Eighth Route Army, so the review work is still a little behind!" Wang
Ying said.
After Zhou Weihan listened, he looked at Hu Jingyun, Minister of Economic Work.
I saw Hu Jingyun saying: "Currently, Shexian County's taxation work is progressing well, especially commercial taxes. Three hundred thousand border tickets have been issued in Shexian County alone. People in Shexian County have already used border tickets normally."
"What supports the Eighth Route Army is the credibility of our Eighth Route Army. As long as the people trust our Eighth Route Army, judging from the current situation, we can implement the use of border tickets in Wuyi, Wu'an, and Shexian County!"
"Go on!" Zhou Weihan signaled.
"We in Tainan have experience to follow. Border tickets have been issued in Yanzhou. 38 years ago, the border tickets were linked to the legal currency. However, due to the sharp depreciation of the legal currency, in order to avoid the devaluation of the border tickets, they were later issued in the Yanzhou area.
Became an independent currency!”
"But if you want to become an independent currency, you have to go back to what I said before. You must have credit. Take the National Government as an example. In 1935, it carried out currency reform, abolished the two yuan and changed it to the yuan, implemented legal tender, and recovered all silver as reserves to prevent the outflow of silver.
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"For the outside world, the legal currency is pegged to the British pound and the U.S. dollar!"
"Before the Anti-Japanese War, the legal currency was very strong. One yuan of legal currency was equivalent to an ocean. On the one hand, the people recognized that the National Government was orthodox and could really exchange pounds and US dollars on the foreign exchange exchange. On the other hand, to put it bluntly, the people still felt
Britain and the United States are strong and their money will not depreciate!"
"But the situation we are facing in Tainan is even worse. The Nationalist Government is also supported by the United Kingdom and the United States, and we have more land and people. And we have to face financial pressure from the country, Japan, and puppet parties at the same time. The base areas are mostly barren rural areas. However,
We also have an advantage, that is, most people still trust us, but this trust cannot withstand a blow!"
"So on this basis, we need to have various types of reserves, one is gold and silver, the other is a large amount of goods, such as grain and products produced by various factories and supplies in short supply, and the third is that they can be temporarily used with the Japanese yen,
Legal currency and counterfeit currency are linked!”
"At the beginning of issuing border area tickets, the quantity required in the market in the base area cannot be exceeded. The main purpose is to seek stability. Issuing currency is actually plundering the people's wealth. If you are too hasty, the people will easily become dissatisfied!"
"Secondly, there must be foreign trade. We have an advantage in this. The cargo business is going very smoothly. We can use other currencies to purchase materials from abroad, but if we want to buy our things, we must use border tickets!"
Hu Jingyun knew that Zhou Weihan and others did not know much about economic matters, so he tried to speak in simple terms, but Zhou Weihan barely understood.
"So, the most fundamental thing now is to let the people in the base area subscribe for border area tickets?" Zhou Weihan said.
"Yes, I will lead people to confirm the price comparison between border tickets and other currencies as soon as possible, and then use the border tickets to exchange the currency in the hands of the people!" Hu Jingyun nodded.
"How difficult it is. Comrade Jingyun, how many border tickets are you planning to issue in the three counties?" Wang Ying asked.
"Sell at a smaller pace, one million per county?" Hu Jingyun asked in a tentative tone.
Zhou Weihan frowned after hearing this. It was too little. According to Li Da's report, just the Bai family in Wuyi had a turnover of more than 100,000 silver dollars every month in the goods store.
"It's too little. Let's increase the share of three million for the big households in Wuyi, Wu'an, and Shexian counties alone. I'll leave this matter to Li Da."
"I would like to declare to the common people that in the future, you can use border tickets to pay taxes!"
"At the same time, any large merchants who do business with the cargo house must use border tickets to purchase materials from the cargo house. In this way, the three million share is easy to digest!"
"Large households in each county must use border area tickets to sell supplies to the local area!" Zhou Weihan said.
"This is a good way. If ordinary people want to obtain daily necessities, they have to use border tickets. Although most ordinary people do not have much assets, they cannot bear the large base!"
"Factories and self-operated stores in the base area can also adopt this method when selling in the base area!" Wang Ying clapped his hands next to him and said with a smile.
Zhou Weihan also did not expect that the store that was originally just for buying and selling supplies would now become a powerful support for the promotion of border tickets.
Most of the in-demand materials and daily necessities needed by the people in the base area were brought into the base area by the goods dealers. Together with the products produced by the factories, the Eighth Route Army invisibly controlled the lifeblood of the people in the base area.
"Also, I will write a note later. You go to the logistics department Ding Dabaan. He should be able to take out at least 500 large yellow croakers and one million oceans, and show it to the people in the base area. We have it in our hands.
There is a real guy!" Zhou Weihan's move was quite generous.
"Hey, the army is really rich. It's so rich!"
"Wang Ying, this is the money paid by the army collectively. It must be paid back when the time comes. And don't say that the regional government has no money!" Zhou Weihan said to Wang Ying.
"Then don't worry, the troops have given strong support, and the regional government will definitely not hold us back!" Wang Ying said, patting his chest.
"Jingyun, I don't know much about economic matters, but since the border tickets will be linked to legal currency and counterfeit currency in the future, we must be careful about their devaluation. At the same time, we must guard against the import of counterfeit currency, so as not to use our real currency when the time comes.
The gold and silver were defrauded from the bank!" Zhou Weihan finally said.
The economic development work in the base area has a long way to go. Zhou Weihan can handle the apparent war, but the invisible financial war can really be handled by professionals.
Zhou Weihan could predict that once the border area tickets were circulated in the base area and surrounding areas, overt and covert fighting would be inevitable.