It was mid-March when Ba returned from the Philippines.
When Lin Youde saw the girl's miserable appearance, the smile on his face suddenly disappeared.
He gently held the girl's arm and held it for a long time without saying a word. The expression on his face was seen in Ba's eyes. The shallow dimples quietly poked out from the corners of the girl's tightly pursed mouth. Lin Youde was usually fine.
He always likes to make fun of Baba and say some frivolous words, "If you laugh often, you will charm thousands of young people." Now the girl smiles calmly, but he frowns and looks at the girl's hands, sighing in distress.
, completely unaware of it.
"Have a good rest," Lin Youde finally managed to say these words after feeling distressed for a long time, and then turned around and told the head maid who was waiting behind him, "Buy more supplements and feed her to me within a month to make her as fat as before."
After saying that, Lin Youde finally let go of the girl's hand. Du Qifeng had been waiting beside him for a long time - no matter how good Lin Youde was at taking a break from busy work and letting his subordinates do the work, but when the situation got bigger, he still had to step forward.
More and more every day.
He bowed respectfully to Lin Youde, then turned around and stood behind Lin Youde.
"You need personal protection." The girl said in a businesslike tone, "I had to leave before, but now please allow me to continue to perform my duties."
Lin Youde turned around and stared at Ba for a while. Knowing that the girl had made up her mind, he shrugged, turned to the head maid and said, "There is also ginseng soup. Get some for her to drink. Ah Feng, go and ask those foreigners to wait.
Wait, let’s get some good cakes or something to deal with it.”
After saying that, Lin Youde walked out of the corridor and came to the kapok tree in full bloom in the yard. There were stone tables and chairs under the tree. Lin Youde sat down and reached out to push Ba, who was still trying to stand, to the side next to him.
On the chair, he said in a casual tone: "How is the situation over there in the Philippines? What I got here are all second-hand reports, as well as news from foreign newspapers. Please tell me how it is over there."
"When I left, Pollavisha had already led the remnants of the colonial army to surrender, and the troops had already entered into a mopping up battle. It shouldn't take too long to pacify the entire Luzon Island. The situation on the other islands was similar, but the rebellious subordinates were too
He indulged himself, robbed too fiercely, and had great conflicts with the residents of the occupied area. In addition, Nie Xueqiu was very dissatisfied with Xiang Qiyi's behavior of not restraining his subordinates, and threatened to strike several times."
Lin Youde frowned slightly. The report he received never mentioned that Nie Xueqiu wanted to strike. It seems that the good habit of reporting good news rather than bad news is universal, and Lin Youde's subordinates are not exempt from it. So Lin Youde was dissatisfied.
Glancing at Johnnie To, Johnnie To quickly explained: "I haven't received any reports on this either. I'll send a telegram later to severely criticize the people over there."
"Well, the wording needs to be harsh. In addition, you can send another telegram to Xiang Qiyi, telling him that the Shenji Battalion has been fighting continuously for nearly a month. It is depleted of people and horses, and its equipment also needs major maintenance and repairs, so it will be accompanied by the Hailufeng detachment.
Withdraw to Helanggabo."
Lin Youde wanted to withdraw his troops before. Anyway, the current situation is that the mountainous and relatively poor Northern Luzon is Lin Youde's territory, and the plains full of plantations in the south will be given to Xiang Quyi. But Xiang Quyi
On the grounds that "the threat is still there", he tried his best to oppose it, so the precious troops in Lin Youde's hands had to stay in Southern Luzon to fight. Now that the Spaniards have surrendered, the independent army has been defeated, and Nie Xueqiu's lengtouqing is fighting again.
There was a conflict with Xiang Qiyi, so he simply followed the trend and withdrew his troops.
Lin Youde thought about it, the Shenji camp was located in Helangyabo, which would be the future stronghold of the Nanyang Army. Nie Xueqiu secretly brought her back to China and disciplined her well, so that the girl could change her stupid temper.
Of course, Lin Youde is a little selfish in thinking this way. That girl Nie Xueqiu is very pretty, and she seems to have fallen in love with Lin Youde at first sight. She calls her brother Lin so sweet every time she calls her back. If she calls her back, given time, she might become Lin Youde's first unlucky person.
A girl who impresses with her golden fingers.
Maybe he is the only one, Lin Youde thought pessimistically. In the last time and space, he had already given up on picking up girls.
As for Xuedaba, this girl had been with Lin Youde for more than a year and had given her so much trust. In the end, she was not even included in the staff list. Lin Youde no longer had extravagant expectations for her.
In fact, Lin Youde just happened to miss the upgrade, otherwise he would be pleasantly surprised to find that there is another character card in his "skill book"...
After a brief silence, Lin Youde put aside the chaotic thoughts in his mind and returned his attention to the matter in the Philippines at hand.
“How is the use of Nanyang tickets in Langabo and San Fernando and even Northern Luzon which we control?”
Ba seemed confused about Lin Youde's question. She was undoubtedly a smart girl, but the limitations of the times prevented her from understanding the economic policies Lin Youde implemented in Nanyang. She also retained the wartime military policies issued by Japan in the Southwest War and the Sino-Japanese War
She thought that the Nanyang banknotes that Lin Youde made were a similar way to make money. So the girl seemed puzzled that Lin Youde actually cared about this. But she still answered truthfully: "There are still a large number of Spanish silver dollars in circulation on the market.
, but because of the establishment of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative and Nanyang Bank, many people in the market use Nanyang tickets. At least I saw many people using it."
Lin Youde nodded with satisfaction. Faced with the questions on Ba's face, Lin Youde did not intend to explain. Many things could not be explained clearly to people of this era.
The economic policies adopted by Lin Youde in Nanyang were actually a hybrid of Chen Yun's price stabilization measures in Shanghai after liberation and Cardoso's Real Plan in Brazil. He first opened a supply and marketing cooperative and used himself to control local foreign trade.
Conveniently, they monopolized the sales of imported products, especially imported daily necessities such as textiles, and used low-priced and unlimited supply and military inspections to combat the speculation of local businessmen, establishing the monopoly position of supply and marketing cooperatives in the economic life of the Nanyang Army-occupied areas.
At the same time, Lin Youde followed the example of Brazilian President Cardoso in establishing a "double price" system in the supply and marketing cooperative. Each commodity in the supply and marketing cooperative has two prices, one is the price of hard currencies such as silver dollars, and the other is the price of Nanyang tickets. Nanyang tickets
The price tag is significantly lower than hard currency.
In 1994, when Cardoso was still Brazil's Finance Minister, he used this double price system to build people's trust in the new currency Real. This classic case made Lin Youde realize that it doesn't matter how much the currency is really worth, what matters is
It depends on how much people believe it is worth. In 1994, the Brazilian government simply did not have the strength to maintain a fixed docking of the domestic currency with the US dollar. Using financial means to ensure the purchasing power of the new currency Real as it did in the past would undoubtedly be a challenge to the various measures introduced by the Brazilian government before.
The mistake of the new currency. So Cardoso went in the opposite direction, first using administrative orders to give the real a stable purchasing power and making people believe that the currency was worth so much, and then fought with the international banking consortium.
Financial war.
Because Brazilians believed in the purchasing power of the real, the new currency finally allowed Brazil to get rid of ten consecutive years of high inflation and rescued the economy from an inflation rate of 2,000 percent.
Therefore, Lin Youde followed this approach and used the monopoly supply and guns in his own hands to give Nanyang Bank a stable purchasing power at the expense of lost profits.
In order to buy the products of the supply and marketing cooperative at a more favorable price, local people will go to the Nanyang Bank to exchange silver dollars for Nanyang notes at a one-to-one ratio. As long as Lin Youde's army maintains stable control of this area, Nanyang notes will eventually replace silver dollars.
Circulated throughout Northern Luzon. Lin Youde will obtain a large amount of hard currency reserves, which can be used to purchase arms and various supplies. More importantly, these reserves can give Nanyang Bank a greater say in the financial field and can
Promote Nanyang Ticket to more places.
Therefore, the statement that knowledge is power is not limited to scientific knowledge such as physics and chemistry. In a sense, advanced economics and sociology knowledge can promote the expansion of power. The key difference is that scientific knowledge such as physics and chemistry
, to transform it into usable power requires the cooperation of a lot of conditions. For example, the level of technology at that time does not mean that you can make a rifle if you go back to ancient times with the design of a modern rifle. The establishment of the entire industrial system is extremely complicated.
It's basically a pipe dream to have a bunch of new weapons come out just by slapping your head.
But it is much simpler to transform liberal arts knowledge into power. All you need is a relatively broad experimental site, and then you can adjust your strategy according to the specific details of the implementation process - the key is to have a heart that is good at adapting to changes.
Lin Youde wants to use Northern Luzon as his testing ground, and he also has an advantage, that is, his business skill tree is almost full.
Lin Youde's wishful thinking was really good.
After briefly understanding the implementation of the Nanyang Ticket, Lin Youde turned his attention to another direction: "Have all the foreigners gathered in San Fernando boarded the ship to return home?"
"About half of them left, and the remaining half seemed to choose to stay. It seems to me that foreigners have a very good impression of the Nanyang Army."
Lin Youde nodded. It is a good thing that some people stay. If there are many people who stay, it will be easier to attract foreigners to invest in the future when the situation stabilizes. By then, Nanyang tickets will be universal in Northern Luzon, and foreigners who come to invest will also have to exchange them for backup. That way
Lin Youde's bank now has an additional source of funding.
Lin Youde wanted to ask something else, but the maid came up with ginseng soup. Lin Youde shut his mouth and watched quietly as he drank the ginseng soup, then patted his butt and stood up.
"Okay, we can't keep the ghost guy waiting too long." Lin Youde paused, looked at Ba and said with a smile, "Look at me, I was just here to see how thin you were, and I forgot to mention it. Ba, welcome back.