Dominate the Country

Chen Ming received the new war report from North America after the Chinese New Year. He then learned that the expeditionary force followed the Pacific Rim Alliance and played an American version of the Japanese Volunteer Corps, and the control strength was not as strong as Chen Han's on Japan.

But this made Chen Ming realize that he really didn't take Japan seriously and hadn't thought about killing the emperor recently. When he organized the Japanese Security Corps and Volunteer Corps, he was clearly planning to use them as knives. Why did he forget to spread some to America now?

Although the Japanese Security Corps and Volunteer Corps, with a total strength of more than 50,000, are busy in the deep mountains and old forests of Nanyang all day long, they are constantly using their lives to shave off the local termites that endanger China's rule in Nanyang, and their role is also very important. But forgetting to throw them to America is also incorrect.

In these years, the number of Japanese who have received the yellow book has reached 20,000, which is equivalent to 20,000 families, and more than 90% of them are from the Volunteer Corps and the Security Corps. As long as one person in a Japanese family gets the yellow book, the entire family's direct relatives can live in China for a long time. After five years, if no one breaks the law, his relatives can also apply for the yellow book from the local government.

There are already three or four thousand people who have received the red book.

According to preliminary statistics, almost everyone in the first batch of security team members got the red book, and more than 90% of them gave themselves Chinese names.

The children of these people go to school in China, receive Chinese education, speak Chinese, eat Chinese food, and wear Chinese clothes since childhood. It is hard to say how much they still have thoughts about Japan when they grow up.

Just like the descendants of Chinese immigrants to the United States in the 21st century, how much Chinese heart do those second-generation people have? Or are they more banana people?

The answer is obvious.

Chen Ming is now very proud that he not only made China have countless Japanese people, but also turned some white people into egg people.

White skin and yellow heart.

These egg-shaped people who wear Hanfu, use chopsticks, and can speak Chinese are not just Westerners like 'Dashan' in Chen Ming's previous life who like Chinese culture, but white people who are truly loyal to Nanjing and proud of their Chinese nationality.

Those Poles who 'surrendered' to China in the Sino-Russian War, and a few Cossacks, their descendants have now fully adapted to life in China.

It's been so many years.

These 'kites' who have been trained and then 'released' have earned a better life for their families with their hard work, which they dared not even think of before.

The salary of 'kites' is not low to begin with, and they have various subsidies for infiltrating the Russian-controlled area, and there are rewards after completing the task, which can completely allow their families who stay in China to live a noble life.

Except for some restrictions on freedom, the lives of their families are like in heaven. In terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, they can be regarded as members of the middle class in Nanjing. Because they cannot move freely, this also saves a lot of money for their families, and these people rarely pay attention to saving, and spend a lot of money on food, clothing and daily necessities, so their lives are too comfortable.

Especially those families whose children are "selected" by the upper level, the treatment they receive is definitely beyond their imagination of "paradise".

Chen Ming believes that when these "second generations" grow up, their loyalty and credibility will far exceed that of their parents.

The day of harvest will take a long time, but Chen Ming is not anxious about these "egg people".

The Russians have been very honest in recent years. The division of Poland has involved a lot of their energy, and Catherine II has also made an armed neutral alliance, and the Ottomans have recovered quickly, which has tied up a lot of Russia's energy. Not to mention that their control and deterrence in Central Asia have greatly declined, which has also greatly reduced their threat to northwest China.

On the Kazakh steppe, with the example of the Great Juz, Abben also moved closer to Nanjing, and the attitude of the Small Juz also changed. After the death of Nurali Khan, his son Achuwak was elected as the Small Juz Khan. He should be very envious of the Great Juz Khan Abilis, and took the initiative to send his eldest son Qiongjula to Nanjing to study military affairs, and China also gladly accepted Qiongjula. Although the Small Juz continued to submit to Russia, its attitude towards Russia had changed from "Kong Youde" to "Wu Sangui".

In this era of underdeveloped communications, if you want to expand rapidly abroad, war is of course indispensable, but "raising dogs" must also be carried out.

"Puppet troops" can not only enhance their own combat effectiveness, but also cause divisions within the enemy. If you want to sweep the "enemy" as soon as possible, this is necessary.

Due to traffic restrictions, Chen Ming's control over the northern border is always not as good as that over the inland, so he has to raise Mongolians, just like he raised a Japanese dog before. But the situation over there was not very tense, so the progress was slow. Chen Ming really didn't know that in the distant America, when Chen Ming didn't know it, he had another American dog.

The only difference was that the Japanese dog directly raised in Nanjing ate and drank from Nanjing. It was not that it could not create value by itself, but this "value" was too low and too little. However, the "American dog" could create very high value on its own.

Because the native chieftains in Nanyang cannot be compared with the native princes in India, they are so poor that they can't even make money. The reason why the American dogs raised by the North American Expeditionary Force can create much higher value than Japanese dogs is because they are from wealthy Mexico.

In just two months, it has already brought in 5 million in revenue. Although it is completely incomparable with the cost of the entire North American operation, it is also very beneficial.

The expeditionary force reported that this number is just the beginning. When the armed forces of Indians spread to Mexico and even developed to the entire Viceroyalty of New Spain and the Viceroyalty of New Granada, the revenue will truly reach its peak.

As long as this policy continues, the expeditionary force is expected to make a profit of 50 million yuan in the next year [referring to the ninth year of Chengtian], which will greatly reduce the pressure on military expenditure.

Chen Ming immediately approved it. He absolutely agreed with the "American dogs". The profit of 50 million has dazzled his eyes.

This reply has now been sent to the cabinet, and Chen Ming believes that it will be recognized by the cabinet at the first time. Nanjing's finances are really in a state of crisis.

North America, Southeast Asia, and Myanmar. Last year, Chen Han fought three different wars in three different battlefields. The tension revealed in the financial report once again made Chen Ming associate it with the four words "warmongering".

The call for weapons to be put into storage has once again risen in the newspapers. Many people and wealthy people, the middle class, and big businessmen do not know about the "American closure".

The establishment of the American Expeditionary Force has not been "publicized" at all.

So in the eyes of many people, the ongoing war in North America is really a bit bad. Many people hope that the court will temporarily cease fire with the Spaniards in North America and seize Ceylon first. The eyes of the domestic capitalist class cannot see the distant North America, but are full of interest in the Indian continent, which has already been somewhat known.

Eight years after the establishment of Chen Han, the domestic economic development rate declined for the first time last year, from more than 10% before, to 8% for the first time. Although the cabinet explained that this was because China's economy was undergoing fine-tuning, after all, the entire Nanyang had become China's territory.

It would definitely have an impact on foreign trade.

This year, the economic growth rate will return to the "normal" level. Imagine the development of Java and Sumatra, which will definitely stimulate China's economic progress.

The Chen Han court still had great prestige in the hearts of the Chinese people in this era. Java and Sumatra were both rare treasures, even though there were still many indigenous people there, such as the Acehnese in the northwest of Sumatra. Since the breakdown of the negotiations last fall, the Nanyang Navy sent troops to seize the entire Aceh, but the Sultan of Aceh fled, and those powerful Ulyobarang (local lords) were also resisting, and the local Muslim leaders were leading the Acehnese to continue to resist with the call of "holy war".

The Nanyang Navy, the Japanese Security Force, and the Volunteer Corps that occupied Aceh, how many Acehnese villages they destroyed in the past few months, they themselves are afraid that they can't say for sure. Batches of Acehnese became slaves and were transported back to Belitung, Hongji, Borneo, Siam, and mainland China by the Nanyang Labor Service Company.

Anyway, as far as Chen Ming knows, the price of slave labor in the market has dropped by more than 10% in the past few months.

But developing these two islands is definitely profitable.

After the New Year, iron ingots, iron pots, axes and other ironware, cattle and horses, bupleurum, rhubarb, coptis, etc. have become popular in the market, and the prices are changing every day, and soon they have reached the highest price.

Especially in Fujian and Guangdong provinces, because there is a shortage of materials in the market, everyone expects that Java and Sumatra will carry out large-scale immigration development in a few years. These things are necessities for immigrants, so the price has risen directly to the top, and it will be illegal if it is higher. Strict price control is a magic weapon for Chen Han to control the domestic economy, so that the "profit-seeking" businessmen dare not raise prices at will, otherwise they will be waiting for a court arrest warrant. This phenomenon instantly shattered Chen Ming's previous slightly complacent intoxication with the development speed of China's industry.

Supply and demand are tight, can this still be considered good?

The news from South America brought him a little joy. Although the Sino-Spanish war was still intertwined and the war had turned into a state of confrontation, the expeditionary force still had a killer move. As long as it could detonate the huge and sharp ethnic conflicts within Spanish Mexico and let the Indians erupt, even if this outbreak was quickly suppressed by the Spanish, it would greatly drag the Spanish back.

The direction of the war made him feel relieved about North America.

At least he could focus on the country and think carefully with his ministers and nobles about how to increase fiscal revenue and curb and alleviate the increasingly serious fiscal crisis.

Last year, the Ministry of Finance issued the latest version of the Huayuan, with the maximum value rising from ten yuan to one hundred yuan. There was Chen Ming's head printed on it, and the current map of Chen Han was printed on the back. The west coast of North America was printed on it without reservation, and the entire Pacific Ocean became Chen Han's inner lake.

At the same time, the law stipulates that the gold content of a Huayuan banknote is 0.25 grams, and China has entered the gold standard era.

What is the gold standard?

That is, gold is used to determine the value of the currency issued. Each currency unit has a legal gold content, and the currencies of various countries form a certain exchange rate relationship according to the weight of gold they contain.

Just like the current Japanese yen, it still insists on a gold content of 0.2 yuan, that is, one yen contains 0.75 grams of gold, and the exchange rate between the Chinese yuan and the Japanese yen is officially stabilized at 1:3. They themselves have also entered the gold standard era.

Under this system, governments of various countries stipulate the gold content of their currencies in legal form, and the comparison of the gold content of the currencies of two countries is the mint parity that determines the basis of the exchange rate. Gold can be freely exported or imported into the country, and in the process of export and import, a minting-price flow mechanism is formed, which plays an automatic role in regulating the exchange rate.

Under this system, gold coins can be freely minted, and anyone can freely hand over gold bricks to the national mint to be minted into gold coins according to the legal gold content, or exchange gold coins for equivalent gold bricks from the mint.

At the same time, the door of free exchange and circulation of precious metals, which has been closed by Chen Ming, has also been opened.

Chen Ming made a certain determination to make this decision.

The exchange rate between paper money and silver dollars has changed from 10:1 to 9:1. Chen Han did not forcefully raise the gold content of the Hua Yuan, because the prices of gold and silver have changed slightly over the years. If Chen Han set the price of the Hua Yuan at 0.25 grams of gold, the exchange rate between paper money and silver dollars would indeed reach 9:1.

The British, China's largest foreign trade partner, did not raise any objections to this. Although they will not give up some interests to China because of the war between China, Spain and the Netherlands, they will not hurt each other's friendship for this "little thing".

China is strong, and they have the right to make their own rules of the game. The gold standard is not even implemented by Great Britain now. That is, China now has strong strength and has always been in a trade deficit in overseas trade, and occupies a very prominent position in the world economic system. It implements the gold standard, a monetary policy of free gold export and import, which is actually establishing an international gold standard system centered on the Hua Yuan and based on gold.

Because Chen Ming also hopes that one day, China's Hua Yuan can become the most important means of trade settlement for countries in the world, and gold and Hua Yuan will become international reserves recognized by all countries at the same time. Let Huayuan and gold have the same important status. With Chen Han's current strong economic power, Shanghai will surely become the oriental financial center and international financial center. One day, an international gold standard centered on gold and Huayuan will be formed.

And more importantly, the great discovery of gold mines in Nanmingzhou and the great discovery of gold mines in Xiangzhou [Alaska] and Hanjin [San Francisco] have suddenly given China sufficient and unimaginable gold reserves, and China has the right to speak.

In the era when gold in South Africa had not yet been discovered, the gold mines in China produced enough gold every year to rank among the top in the world and compete with the Spaniards who control most of Latin America for the first gold producer.

Besides, in this era, the country's military force is also one of the focuses of currency security. In the original time and space plane, in 1821, Britain officially adopted the gold standard in 1821, and the pound became the standard currency unit of Britain, with 1 pound containing 7.3+ grams of pure gold. What did John Bull rely on?

One hundred and twenty-five years later, in 1946, when World War II had just ended, the gold content of the pound was less than 3.6 grams.

In July 1947, the UK just announced the free convertibility of the pound, so their foreign exchange reserves quickly lost, and they had to restore foreign exchange controls just one month later.

In 1949, the UK had to announce that the pound would depreciate by 30% again, and the exchange rate of pound to US dollar depreciated to 1 pound to 2.80 US dollars.

The alternation of world hegemony is so cruel. Fortunately, China today is even stronger than Great Britain at that time.

The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has introduced a series of measures, and the Ministry of Finance is also preparing to launch a new national fiscal and taxation system under the supervision of Chen Ming.

To be honest, the new measures of the Ministry of Finance made Chen Ming very painful, because the first knife was cut on the royal family. This policy is cutting the flesh of the royal family.