Although all kinds of conspiracies are quietly operating, Helang Yabo still seems to be singing and dancing.
As Lin Ji's own strength was weakened by the war, his control over the circulation field weakened, and the proportion of private commerce in the entire economic system increased significantly. An obvious benefit of this is that on the surface, the market looks better than before There is much prosperity, although the goods on the market are not more abundant than when Lin Ji's family was dominant, and the prices are far less fair and reasonable than when Lin Ji was strong.
After Lin Youde carefully analyzed the situation, he felt that there was no need to re-occupy the entire circulation field. Although Lin Ji's overall share in the circulation field has dropped to about 50%, the profit rate has increased significantly - Because it is a seller's market now, the prices of many commodities have increased significantly.
In addition, non-Linji capital's investment in civil industry effectively made up for Linji's lack of expenditure on civil industry. Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols, Shu merchants and Shanxi merchants all moved to coastal areas to seize the opportunity to invest and set up factories - they have seen Now that Lin Ke has benefited from the factory, many people fantasize about becoming the second celebrity in China to establish a super trust like Lin Ke. And after they invest in setting up a factory and sell their goods nationwide, they must Relying on Nanyang Bank and Nanyang Bank - the effect of Lin Youde's war in the Northeast is now beginning to show. Merchants from Shanxi and Shu may not recognize each other's banknotes issued by the other bank, but they all recognize Nanyang Bank.
So in the early autumn of 1901, Lin Kee's expansion in Sichuan and Shanxi was still slow, but Nanyang Bank opened smoothly in the big cities in these two places, and Nanyang Banknotes with eighteen stars printed on them gradually took over people's daily lives.
The increase in currency circulation and products in circulation has greatly reduced inflationary pressure, so Lin Youde took advantage of the situation and launched a plan to increase the issuance of Nanyang bills. He used Nanyang bills to exchange for a large amount of hard currency from merchants, which gradually caused the war to The deficit was recovered.
It is worth mentioning that long before the Gengzi War, Nanyang Bank had planned to gradually stop providing services for exchanging Nanyang notes for hard currency. By then, Nanyang notes will become truly modern banknotes - they are not decoupled from hard currency. Currency symbol for "value".
Historically, the evolution and development of paper money has its own internal reasons. It does not mean that it is better to advance. However, Lin Youde now has his own reasons for pursuing this policy of decoupling paper money from hard currency: he needs to maximize the gold and silver on the market. Collect it into your own hands to provide support for your own industrialization and at the same time control China financially.
In order to prevent the backlash of this new policy, Lin Youde formulated a five-year plan, intending to achieve this goal step by step. But now that Lin Ji has won the battle, his prestige has increased unprecedentedly, and with the new changes in the domestic economic situation, Lin Youde The progress of this plan has been greatly advanced.
In Shanxi and Sichuan, the issuance of Nanyang bills was completed through "sales": Shanxi merchants and Shu merchants used silver taels to purchase Nanyang bills of equal value from Nanyang Bank. Since it was a purchase, redemption was naturally eliminated. Already.
As a result, Nanyang Bank has become China's central bank, the Eastern version of the Federal Reserve Board. Lin Youde thinks that this skill is very good. His only regret is that the world monetary system has not yet been formed, and trade between countries still has Without banknotes, you cannot directly use printed banknotes to buy things with foreigners.
But when I think about it, the Lin Ji Empire in a hundred years will probably print banknotes to force other countries to use them, and then use the blood sucked from other countries to build aircraft carriers and Star Destroyers, and in turn continue to force other countries to willingly use them.
Lin Youde was extremely excited when his blood was sucked.
However, the expansion of Nanyang tickets has also made many people worried.
The first to bear the brunt was the Japanese. Not only did they ban Nanyang coins from entering areas controlled by Japan, they also instigated the revolutionary military government in Shandong to block Nanyang coins and forcibly introduced the military tickets of the revolutionary military government as currency. For a time, Shandong finally recovered a little.
The people's livelihood has fallen into turmoil again...
For a time, public opinion across the country took turns criticizing the revolutionary military government and the Japanese Imperial Government.
No one knew that the Imperial Japanese Government was already in a state of embarrassment at this time.
**
The side hall of Ise Jingu Shrine, the residence of the god.
"When we get to Ise, we really want to eat lucky cakes." Kaguya said as she ate happily, not even looking at the stern looking Emperor Princess sitting in front of her.
The current emperor's status was originally inferior to that of Princess Kaguya. Although she is now Japan's highest guardian shrine maiden, it is indeed a bit difficult to get Kaguya from Shikoku, who is famous for pretending to be crazy and acting stupid, to give her enough respect.
Perhaps because of this, Princess Kaguya chose to turn a blind eye to Kaguya's wanton behavior.
But Kaguya obviously didn't intend to save face for her.
"Hey, you are really weird. You specially called people to Ise Shrine but didn't say a word. Did you really just treat me to eat lucky cakes?" Said Kaguya, she immediately lifted her seat.
Position, half lying down in front of Di Ji.
You must know that in Japan of this era, feudal ethics still have very strong constraints on women, and they are far less open than they were later. If Kaguya did this half-lying posture in front of others, it would be considered inappropriate according to the eyes of this era.
, if the Emperor Ji were replaced by a male, it would be enough to be called obscene, the behavior of a prostitute.
But Kaguya didn't care about this at all. She propped up her body on the tatami with one hand, and held a piece of lucky cake in her other hand. She gnawed on it and dropped the crumbs on the floor.
Emperor Ji finally coughed twice to remind Kaguya to pay attention to her image, but Kaguya ignored her.
The shrine lord of Shikoku looked at the courtyard of Ise Jingu Shrine outside the open sliding door.
The shrine maidens of the shrine in the courtyard are rushing back and forth. In the middle of next year, Ise Jingu will undergo the 56th shikinen shrine. At that time, the emperor, who represents the pinnacle of all the shrines in Japan, will move to the newly built palace site next door.
In the palace, the old palace was burned down. In order to prepare for the most solemn ceremony in Japan, which takes place every twenty years, even though the ceremony is still nearly a year away, the entire Ise Jingu Shrine is still busy.
Finally, Teihime seemed to be tired of listening to Kaguya's chewing sounds.
She took a deep breath and was about to speak, but Kaguya got the better of her.
"Wouldn't it be better to just not do it at all? Originally, we had the option of bullying our weak neighbors to strengthen ourselves, but now, we can only choose a strong shoulder to lean on, right?"
Emperor Ji's face was obviously shaken, but she still tried to refute Kaguya.
"Since the Restoration, we have been seeking a way to strengthen ourselves and save the country, to prevent Japan from becoming a vassal of a certain big country. Can Her Highness Kaguya bear to see the achievements of the Restoration in these years go to waste?"
"So you can't bear to see the achievements of these years of reform being smashed to pieces, and our people being displaced in the war? I'm really sorry, I admire the Tokugawa family more than careerists like Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi
What’s your philosophy of life?”
Even when the name of the overthrown shogunate was mentioned, Kaguya still had a cynical expression on her face, showing no fear at all.
Di Ji stared at her for a while, and finally sighed as if giving up.
"Your Highness Kaguya, it seems we have nothing to talk about anymore."
"No, how could it be?" Kaguya got up from the tatami, leaned forward, and stared at Di Ji's Lian, "I have a lot of things to say to Her Majesty Di Ji. It's not too late now, as long as
It is not difficult to find Chinese students studying abroad in Tokyo and let them act as matchmakers to establish a relationship with Lin Ji. Lin Ji is recovering the vitality that was lost during the war. It is most appropriate to negotiate terms with him at this time. We can help Japan in the future of the Chinese Empire.
Zhong seeks the status of a first-class powerful state, and may even become a direct jurisdiction of Lin Youde together with Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian. When they calm down, such an opportunity will be gone.”….
Facing Kaguya, who was inexplicably excited, Emperor Ji sighed again, and then made a gesture to see off the guests.
Kaguya wasn't really crazy, so of course she understood what Di Ji meant, so she shrugged, followed Di Ji's example and sighed, and then picked up the entire wooden plate placed between the cushions of the two of them.
He poured the remaining fortune cakes into his water sleeves.
"This is what is called not to speculate, but the delicious fortune cakes are guilt-free. I took them all away."
After saying that, Kaguya stood up. At the same time as she stood up, the Phoenix-in sister Kurenai who had been waiting outside the Japanese room door opened the sliding door.
After watching the shrine masters and servants of Shikoku Taisha Shrine leave, Emperor Ji called out "Come here."
A miko immediately appeared outside the sliding door of the Japanese room, kneeling respectfully and obeying orders.
"Are the envoys from the British Empire still in the Shrine?"
"Yes, Your Highness."
Di Ji did not give instructions immediately. She bit her lip and hesitated for several minutes before giving the order in a tone of voice that was not impressive:
"Call him here."
**
On Kaguya's carriage, the shrine maiden, who had never been a formal figure, had a rare serious expression.
"Sister Hongtan..."
"Just say Biao called me that."
"Order the vigilante groups of the four countries, the police, the ronin, and the retainers of the various Tosa tribes to be ready, and the battle witch team will begin to inventory and prepare weapons."
"Yes. In the end...do we still have to come to this point?"
"Who knows." Kaguya opened the curtains and looked at the Ise street scene that was retreating outside the carriage. "That child has always liked to get into trouble, and he can't turn around at the critical moment. In comparison, I
It's just too easy to turn around... Five years ago, if I had been firmer, the late Emperor Ji would not have died, and it won't be like this now."
Five years ago, when the top brass of the Japanese Empire were secretly discussing how to deal with the pro-China Emperor, they secretly explored Kaguya. At that time, Kaguya made it clear that she decided to turn a blind eye.
The attitude of watching from the sidelines. Although Kaguya-hime supported many views of the left at that time, she always felt that the ideas of Emperor Hime and Princess Kutsu seemed too neurotic and too worrying. The prosperity of Japan depended on the prosperity of China. China at that time
Like a dead pig, the right choice is to go up and cut the meat with a knife.
So far, Princess Kaguya doesn't think her judgment was wrong. She just didn't expect Lin Youde to suddenly pop up. Now for Japan, there are only two ways: choose to survive with one thigh, or be like scattered cherry blossoms.
A gorgeous demise.
From Kaguya's point of view, this is no choice at all.
"But," Kaguya put down the curtains, "we have to take another look at the situation. I always feel that Emperor is planning something behind her back, so at least wait until the Taiwanese side starts to explore the way first."