Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2166 Zhuoshui ([-])

At the end of December 1691, after leaving some people to continue to help in the yellow fever epidemic area of ​​Yinguo County, Yang Qihua took a few followers and guards and shuttled along the Zhuo River again, and arrived in Fangshan County, where he would receive A batch of medicines shipped from the rear.

"The road from the south is actually very peaceful, unlike our return from the gold mining area in the north, you have to keep your eyes open all the way, and you must not relax your vigilance at all, otherwise you may lose your life. You know, the east bank The gold company's fleet is always the most eye-catching, and I don't know how many robbers have attracted the attention. The worst thing is that the departure time of the Dongjin company's fleet is often leaked, and I don't know who the hell leaked it .Mei’s agency has already intervened in the investigation, but there are thousands of people in the mining field, as well as other management, security, logistics and technical personnel, and hundreds of people in the transport convoy. It is indeed difficult to keep the news from leaking. You guy!" In a teahouse by the road outside Fangshan Town, a Dongjin company escort captain complained to Yang Qihua.

Near the highway is a small fortress with high walls and deep pools. Inside is a gold processing factory invested and built by the government. It is responsible for further finely purifying and removing impurities from the roughly purified gold nuggets, and then processing and melting them into shapes that are convenient for transportation. Find a way to get back to Qingdao Port in the south.

These gold will be used as the reserves of the East Coast currency gold standard system in the future.The new monetary unit "Yuan" will be a paper-based exchange certificate, and one Yuan is fixedly linked to 2 grams of gold. Considering the huge domestic economic aggregate on the East Coast, it may require hundreds of tons of gold reserves to support it.And how much gold reserves are there in total on the East Coast?However, it looks like thirteen tons, which is really not enough.

Of course everyone knows, because it is a paper gold exchange coupon, and not everyone will exchange it for gold as soon as they get it, not to mention that there will definitely be many people who will use this kind of exchange coupon. The voucher is deposited in the bank account.Therefore, in actual operation, there may be no need for so many physical gold objects to correspond one-to-one with the exchange vouchers.The government can issue more paper-based gold exchange certificates to circulate in the market with peace of mind. There is a certain amount of gold in the treasury to deal with emergencies. As long as there is no run, there is basically no risk of credit bankruptcy.Taking a step back, you are a country or a government. There are so many powerful departments. Even if there is a run on for special reasons, will you die if you restrict exchange or even suspend exchange?Rest assured people will have no choice but to trust you as long as they do a better job than other governments!

And the benefits of using gold coupons are amazing.It can greatly loosen the financial shackles that have been put on the government for many years, so that they have more abundant financial strength than before to do various things.To put it bluntly, in the past, the government needed to use real money to drive people to work for a certain project, but now it is not so troublesome, just print some gold coupons, as long as the number of "yuan" issued is not too much ——Or print too much for a while, and then recycle and write off some when the fiscal loosening later, as if nothing happened—basically, it will not cause any serious negative impact on the economy, and it will even be beneficial to the economy. Economic Operation.

Considering that the international silver price is on a downward path, and the gold dollar has so many benefits, and the east coast government still has so many ambitious plans, how can you stop them from issuing gold exchange certificates (commonly known as gold circle certificates)? ), implement a thorough gold standard currency system?Any official at the financial port on the east coast has lived in great anxiety these past few years. The development of old land across the country, the construction of new land in La Plata, a number of railway, road and port construction projects, the construction of canals and water conservancy facilities, The continuous upgrading and transformation of water supply and water supply facilities in old towns, the improvement of medical and sanitary facilities, the popularization of education, the investment in scientific research, the increasing military expenditure, etc., all require human, material and financial resources, and most of these investments are All are calculated in tens of millions.A huge hole is waiting for them, how can these people not be anxious?

There is no one to blame for this, but the leadership of the East Bank was too anxious, too fast, and too demanding!When the economic and social levels have not developed to a very high level - it is fair to say that some aspects of the east coast have reached the level of the later 19th century, some are in the 18th century, and some are still in sync with the times - just Rigidly launching many advanced projects will inevitably cause many problems, especially the consumption of manpower and material resources, which is even more alarming.So, everything is self-inflicted. Is it so easy to be a civilized lighthouse country?

But no matter what, the leadership on the east coast is adhering to the will of their fathers and is still trying their best to promote the development of the country-yes, it is to try their best to push the country forward, rather than the bottom-up development model of many countries in the old continent —so they need a lot of money.What is gold?It can neither be eaten nor worn. Its greatest function is that people recognize it as a first-class equivalent. The government can use this to dominate the country's manpower and material resources, squeeze the people's physical strength and energy, and do many things that would have taken many years to complete. Boost.

Of course, we should also know that the role of gold in controlling resources is still based on the existing national strength of the country, and it cannot exceed too much.That is to say, when you have 100 resources, maybe the government could only mobilize 50 resources before, but when you have more gold or currency, you can mobilize 60 or 70 resources, but it is absolutely impossible to mobilize 120 resources. This is against the law of social and economic development.Some people may say that resources can be imported from foreign countries. This is true, but it is also limited.For example, labor resources, is it possible that the east coast will be open to the European population without restrictions?Seems unlikely.What about other supplies?Also limited!The old continent was beating life and death every day, and the development of industry and agriculture had been greatly inhibited. They themselves were still importing various industrial products to the east coast, so how could it be possible for people from the east coast to purchase in large quantities?Besides, people on the east coast don't like many of their things!

Although Yang Qihua is an army doctor, he has also systematically studied some economic knowledge, and his father Yang Jie has just been appointed as the captain of the New China Pioneering Team. He has been exposed to these principles since he was a child of an official family.Therefore, when he heard the captain of the transportation team complain about the security environment along the way, he just smiled slightly, not in a hurry.He knew that the Tieling Gold Mine in the south of the east coast is still being mined steadily, Australia and the Far East will also send gold back regularly, and some gold will be sent back from Africa from time to time-the gold mine in South Africa has not yet been mined, and there is a small gold mine in Xinhuaxia Island. mines, others mainly rely on trade to obtain dog head gold from the natives - the country's gold reserves have been steadily increasing.I believe that if it hadn't been for buying land from the Spaniards a while ago and being forced to use part of the gold reserves, the State Administration of Precious Metals would definitely not have only a dozen tons of gold under the name.

In fact, there is no rush for this matter, take your time, I believe that the members of the executive committee have a account in mind.

After Yang Qihua rested in Fangshan County for a while, he didn't sit and wait.He first sent a telegram to the Ministry of the Army, briefly reporting his experience during this period, and then went to Fangshan County Hospital, which was under construction, to help.This hospital, which currently only has two or three licensed doctors, heard that an experienced military doctor would come to help. Naturally, they were overjoyed and wished for it.

Because of the large floating population, there are actually quite a few patients with various diseases in Fangshan County, but most of them endure it, or they are reluctant to spend money to go to the hospital, or they don't trust doctors.But even the fraction that remained was enough to overwhelm and overwhelm the county's only hospital.Many patients who were not treated in time even turned their anger on the doctors, so that the Fangshan county government had to urgently dispatch militiamen to maintain order, otherwise those wild people who came back from the gold mining area would probably demolish the hospital!

Because there is still some precious anesthetic liquid (ether) on hand, and the county hospital also has a special operating room with all the equipment, so Yang Qihua simply sits in the operating room and performs operations on patients, mainly for emergencies. Episodic appendicitis, followed by amputation.In addition, he also helped to train a group of newly recruited nurses and apprentice doctors in the hospital-don't doubt that there are two ways to train doctors in the East Coast, one is school training, the other is the inheritance of the master-apprentice system, The two go hand in hand—and at the same time helped write some disease control promotional materials.

Combined with his recent experience, these promotional materials are detailed, rich, very readable, and have strong educational significance, which should be very effective.It can also be seen from here how critical it is for a person's growth to experience more outside.If Yang Qihua spends a few more years of medical tours outside, not only will his military rank be promoted, but the level of medical treatment may also be comparable to that of some old military doctors on the east coast, let alone those low-level part-time doctors in the old continent.

As for the medical level of the old road, in fact, there has been a lot of progress in these years, which is mainly due to the spillover and diffusion of medical technology on the east coast.To be honest, it is difficult to keep this kind of industry open to the public and with a large number of participants. Foreigners can learn a lot through hearsay, searching for second-hand medical journals and magazines, and even going to hospitals for treatment.For example, the doctor’s canons compiled by the people on the east coast, such as "Ming Medical Records", "Song Medical Records", "Anatomy", "Bacteriology", etc., have been spread to foreign countries in the past few decades. These have undoubtedly greatly improved the old continent. medical level.

Taking Britain as an example, they sent special personnel to study books such as "Ming Yi Ji Kao", and then searched for some herbal medicine substitutes, which achieved good results.Of course, books such as "Ming Medical Books and Tests" have also spread to mainland China, and it is no surprise that they have caused a huge reaction in the local area. Many Chinese medicine practitioners refuted it, because the people on the east coast listed many ancient Chinese medicine practitioners who are pure nonsense in the book. Fang Zi, which was judged to be completely ineffective, aroused the hostility of many conservatives.

However, there are also many open-minded Chinese medicine practitioners who are in favor of it, and have begun to study the new discoveries of "Chinese medicine" made by the former Song Miao people on the east coast. The enthusiasm for Eastern medicine has begun to slowly heat up in some places. I believe these will help improve the local medical level. and the lives of the people are helpful.

People from the east coast came to this world. Although they colonized the world and carried out colonial trade, it was not safe to ask for it from the outside world. In fact, it also fed back.A civilized lighthouse country should be like this!

(End of this chapter)