Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1283 Order Rectification ([-])

"Let's put it this way, judging from the master version of the military ticket that I want to come from Jingjiang County, you issued a total of seven types in the occupied areas of Brazil, with a total of 450 million yuan, right?" said Zhou Shen in the Anyuan Township government office. Wo motioned to his secretary to take out a stack of military tickets from the leather briefcase, which they probably took from the printing workshop of the Jingjiang Paper Mill.

The pictures of these military tickets are rough, and the printing is also very blurry. In short, they don't look very formal.Moreover, the most important thing is that there is no reserve fund for the issuance of this kind of military ticket. Although the Joint Chiefs of Staff pretended to set up a sea and land "joint reserve warehouse" and put some junk into it, it was really worth as much as 450 million yuan ?No one will believe this, right?

"Chief of General Staff Mo, in fact, I think these military tickets are still in circulation in the occupied areas. Although they have suffered a serious devaluation, they have not completely collapsed. It is really amazing. How did you do it? It is not because of the Indians. Simple, right? To be honest, they have worked as slaves in Portuguese manors for so many years, and they don’t know everything, but they can barely maintain circulation and not become waste paper to wipe their asses. It’s really amazing.” Zhou Shen Wo took another sip of yerba mate and said with a smile: "I remember that you wanted to ask the Northwest Reclamation Bank to help with the issuance of military tickets, but they thought the military tickets had a bad reputation and thought it was just an institution that raised military expenses for you. , Most of them will be tricked, and I'm afraid I can't avoid it, haha, now I can't think of letting you do it yourself."

In other words, when the Ministry of the Army printed military tickets, it used the sea-land joint preparation warehouse from the beginning-if you go to the warehouse, you will find that there are only some broken linen, cotton cloth, wood, old grain, and replacements. Armaments and so on, three pennies are worth two pennies——issued in the name of , and it was printed as much as 300 million yuan.

Before the war broke out, the Ministry of the Army began to sell these military bills at a [-]% discount in the country in order to withdraw some funds in advance, but the responders seemed to be lower than expected. Prepare to tighten your belt for a Brazilian release.Later, as more and more occupied areas were occupied, the banknotes issued by the joint reserve bank began to be widely circulated in the vast space including the wealthy Sao Paulo; Time has been greatly degraded, and the army on the east coast has also controlled the purchase and sale of the main types of food, consumer goods and imported goods in the occupied area, and then used bayonets to force everyone to purchase the above items with military tickets. This is more or less maintained. Checked the reputation of the military ticket so that it did not collapse on the spot.

Later, with the acceleration of guerrilla activities in the occupied area and the shortage of manpower, the Ministry of War had to use the excuse of fully implementing the laws on the East Coast to release a large number of Indian slaves, and then incorporated them into the servant army, and some of them were used as soldiers to transfer materials back and forth. , and some of them were compiled as volunteers to join the front-line battles-these all undoubtedly had to be paid, and the money to be paid was naturally a military ticket.At that time, the Ministry of the Army found that the 300 million yuan military ticket printed in the first phase had been used up (it was costly to buy land, manors and various materials), so it simply delegated the power of printing military tickets to the hands of the frontline military leaders, and let them base on the actual situation. Printed, supervised by the gendarmerie.At the same time, the issuing agency "Joint Reserve Bank" was reorganized into "Brazilian Rural Financial Cooperatives" to make it sound taller. Therefore, various military tickets issued in the name of Brazilian Rural Financial Cooperatives (including the design of the face pattern) appeared later. are all different) about 150 million yuan, which is quite scary.

It is conceivable that a huge military ticket of 450 million yuan was thrown on such a vast and sparsely populated land, and what kind of violent inflation it would cause. Therefore, the face depreciation is actually inevitable, just like people on the east coast The military tickets issued in the Spanish-occupied area were the same, the only difference was how much it depreciated.If it hadn't been for the people on the east coast to force circulation, I'm afraid it would be like Zhou Shenwo's, and even the Indians would not be willing to use it.

“Hehe, as we all know, the Brazilian economy—especially the south—has a pre-capitalist social and economic foundation with rural areas and localities as the main body at the bottom; primary capital composed of peninsula merchants and slave owners at the top It is a socialist economic foundation, and it is a deformed economic structure. Therefore, in terms of currency circulation, it shows obvious boundaries, mainly through several channels such as the export of special products and the import of consumer goods, and a small amount of wage payment. It’s closed.” Mo Ming, the country’s largest military chief, was full of economic terms when he spoke. It can be seen that he has learned a lot of theories in recent years, but he said: “As the development of the military administration in the occupied area As long as the banknotes issued by the bond agency and the Brazilian Rural Financial Cooperative are circulated within our military sphere of influence, and all kinds of consumption materials are under our control, they will definitely not become worthless waste paper. Of course, it is difficult to depreciate seriously. Avoided."

"Financial institutions that have the right to issue banknotes are unrestrained and indiscriminate, especially when the amount has reached more than 450 million yuan, and the value of the banknotes has dropped below 30%. Then your army uses the fallen banknotes to forcefully buy Brazilian civilian supplies and pay wages. Among them Benefits, even we are jealous. But, this food is too ugly, isn't it? Not to mention, you have issued so many currencies now, and the denominations are also different. I heard that Mr. Zhu Liang of the South Route Army Some bastard at the commander actually printed a bunch of three-yuan and seven-yuan banknotes, which is too confusing and ridiculous." Zhou Shenwo said in a somewhat dumbfounding tone: "What is the difference between you different currencies? In other words, you can’t have your own circulation circles, right? In such a complex currency system environment, the people can only carry out extremely unsound operations, and in the end they can only protect the private pockets of warlords—well, the army—and There is no hope of full economic development."

Zhou Shenwo made a mistake for a while, but it seemed that Mo Ming didn't react at all. This gave him a new understanding of the thick skin of Boss Mo, the largest warlord in the army system.But in fact, the white shirt side is not too strong, and the plutocrats and political tyrants are thin-skinned and can get along?

"Then what should we do? The scale of the war is so large, and our war funds are so insufficient. How can we continue the war without implementing a proactive fiscal policy in the occupied areas, self-reliance, and self-financing? , do you think that compared with Wallenstein, Gustav, and Mikhailovich (Russian Tsar) who blatantly looted the locust army, how can we see how ugly our eating is? It is already very civilized and restrained, okay?" Mo Ming spread his hands helplessly, then took another puff of cigarette, and said: "Actually speaking, this is not only a matter of our Joint Staff Headquarters. In order to open up the living space for our future generations and compete for the land under the sun, shouldn’t the cost of this war be borne by the people of the whole country? So, Lao Zhou, your finances are used to rectify the financial order in the occupied areas, and I have no objection to trying to recycle part of the military tickets, but there is one thing, that is, we must ensure that our military’s war funds are sufficient, this is a red line that cannot be crossed, and the rest is up to you, I don’t care.”

"However, having said that, I'm really curious about how you recovered the military ticket. Did you really get rich? It shouldn't be. We have accounts for the seizures of the army and navy. How could it be possible for you to be so rich that you have money? Yu Yu came out to reclaim the military ticket?" Mo Ming was really curious, so he asked.

"It's not as exaggerated as you said." Zhou Shenwo smiled bitterly, put down the teacup in his hand, and after sorting out his thoughts, he said, "First of all, it is impossible to exchange the 450 million yuan military ticket at the original value. This led to the immediate bankruptcy of our finances; secondly, it is impossible to exchange all of them, which is too much pressure, and many military tickets have returned to northern Brazil with the evacuated Portuguese colonists, so it is unrealistic to exchange them all; thirdly, the supply of materials in the occupied areas ( This directly affects commodity prices and the currency value of military tickets) must also be under the control of the Government Affairs Council, and the Army cannot break market rules at will; finally, your Brazilian rural financial cooperatives—the original sea-land joint reserve—must be handed over to us for management, And in the future, the military will no longer be allowed to intervene in the daily operations of this financial institution, which is also a red line that cannot be crossed."

Mo Ming calculated carefully after hearing the words, the military ticket of 450 million yuan has fallen to more than 100 million yuan in terms of currency value. According to what Zhou Shenwo said just now, it has to be exchanged according to the actual market value; and If the Ministry of Finance is more ruthless and offers a discount on this price, it is estimated that in the end it will not be necessary to pay more than 100 million yuan in cash to gradually recover these flooded military tickets, and finally stabilize the financial situation in the occupied areas. Order, laying a solid foundation for the next step of development.

However, based on Marshal Mo's understanding of the gang of white shirts from the Ministry of Finance, it seems that it is not very possible for these people to honestly hand over millions of dollars in cash to recover the military tickets.The most likely way is that the group of people will first take out a fund of 60 million yuan and promise to recover the military tickets printed by various ministries at the market price. The cycle is very long, so that the funds needed in the short term will be greatly reduced, but at the same time the currency value of military tickets has quickly stabilized.

Even, some of the goods can be exchanged for military tickets instead of cash, especially some daily necessities that are urgently needed in the occupied areas, which is also a hard currency!Therefore, these white shirts are really more delicate than monkeys with hair glued on them. They can even do such a thing as recycling 450 million yuan of military tickets so decisively.

(End of this chapter)