Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 78 New Beginning ([-])

On August 8, Yunsheng No. 13 approached in the thin morning fog, which has been officially named Dongfang Port, through the capitals. Li Yi, who was bored watching the seabirds in the sky on the No. [-] fort, was the first to discover this. A ship that is no longer familiar to the traveling crowd.

The news spread at an astonishing speed, and soon, the office of the Admiralty in the administrative building in the center of the city was completely empty, and they flocked to the pier one after another, warmly welcoming the return of the breaking fleet.

Wang Qinian was relatively calm. After Yunsheng No. [-] docked at the port, he put his arm around Wang Tiehammer's shoulder and asked in a low voice, "Where's Lao Xiao? Why are you the only ones coming back? Where are the others?"

Wang Tiechui laughed loudly, and said loudly: "Don't worry! It's okay, everyone is okay! Lao Xiao and the others are nesting in Madoka, and they dare not come back until the battle here is over, for fear of hitting the Spanish fleet head-on. I'm not Did you come back early to check the situation, good guy, is the war over on your side? Peace?"

"Well, it's peaceful!" Wang Qinian breathed a sigh of relief and nodded slightly.

"Damn! Is it really over?" Wang Tiehammer raised his voice again, "Did the army win the battle? You didn't sign any treaty that forfeit power and humiliated the country, did you?"

"Damn it!" Li Yi, who was following behind, almost stumbled. He said with a sour expression: "The guys from the Army wiped out the Spanish Army and forced the Spaniards to have peace talks with us. Now they are in the city. They are showing the limelight. Even Xu Yu’s short wax gourd has European wild horses winking at him wherever he goes now. Even his group of Ukrainian serfs are all snarky.”

"Damn it!" Wang Tiehammer punched Li Yi, "I remember that you just married a Polish ocean horse a while ago? Are you ashamed to say, Nima, the brothers of our broken fleet are holding their heads in a daze at sea After drifting for half a year, I have sunk countless Spanish warships, and I don’t have a wife yet. Forget it, let’s not talk about this, let’s find someone to move things first. Good stuff! Haha.”

Li Yibai took a look at Wang Tiechui, who was selling Guanzi, turned around and walked to a row of red brick bungalows with the sign of "Dongfang Port Port Authority" not far away, and said hello to several officials from the Port Authority who were watching the excitement. Soon, Dozens of Charuya dock workers in linen overalls rushed over.

Wang Tiechui commanded these workers to lift heavy wooden boxes from the warehouse with the help of the sailors on the Yunsheng No. [-] ship.The crates, made of pine, were hoisted from the boat by the dockworkers and stacked beside them.Li Yi took a crowbar and pried open the first wooden box. After removing the thatch inside the box, Li Yi was stunned.

"Damn! This is... silver?" Li Yi asked with some uncertainty.

Wang Tiechui nodded reservedly: "A total of more than 45000 pesos."

Inhalation sounds one after another. "What? Silver? More than 4 pesos of silver?! Let it go, let it go!" Tang Yuan, the first Minister of Finance of the Republic, came out of nowhere. Enthusiasm rushed to the pine box full of silver, knocking down several onlookers along the way.

"It's really silver! Oh my God, the treasury of the Republic can finally stop running horses and has the first fund." Tangyuan said excitedly.

"What... what's going on here? Didn't we still have 50 million yuan in cash before? Why is it gone? Fuck, it's because you paid the Spaniards?!" Wang Tiechui was suddenly excited, and he grabbed asked Tang Yuan's collar.

"Bah! The Spaniards paid us almost the same compensation, and you still want to take it out before it goes into my pocket?" Tangyuan pushed Wang Tiehammer's hand away, took a breath, and explained: "During the time you haven't come back, we The last general congress and the first National Founders Congress were held, and the resolution on the formal establishment of the Central Government of the East Coast Republic of China was passed unanimously. The central government is composed of the Government Administration Council, the (Sea and Land) Joint Staff Headquarters, the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Procuratorate. All of the above parts are under the leadership of the Central Executive Committee, the executive body of the Founders Congress. Ahem, the Central Executive Committee, which is currently in a transitional period, is the original team of the previous Executive Committee. The new government has officially started on August 8. Operation, August 10th is also our National Day. The term of the first government is five years, starting from January 8, 10 and ending on December 1634, 1. At present, everyone has already You are now an official citizen of the Republic. Of course, many positions are still vacant, and we are waiting for everyone. You can pay attention to the election timetable for various positions we have announced, and actively participate in the election."

"Represented again." Wang Tiehammer sighed, and then asked again: "You haven't talked about the money yet. Where did the money go?"

"Isn't that what I'm talking about." Tang Yuan cleared her throat and continued: "The government of the Republic has been established, but it's poor and white. We're busy these days, and we're planning to divest the assets of the East Coast Company. At present, the weapons, warships, workshops, houses, farmland, water conservancy facilities, natural resources, etc. we own belong to the East Bank Company and which belong to the country. This matter must be clarified and clearly divided, otherwise There will be a lot of trouble in the future."

Wang Tiechui seemed to understand a little bit, but there were still some things he didn't understand.He asked: "Then what kind of enterprise is this East Coast Company? Or the former East Coast Company?"

"East Shore Company is a joint-stock enterprise, which has the right to set up enterprises in all industries, import and export trade, conduct financial business, explore and develop mineral resources, train colonial troops, set up trial courts, declare war and conclude peace treaties. All shareholders are currently... er, Shang Two more died in the second army battle... The 565 surviving cross-members have a total share capital of 565 shares, 1 share per person. This share is non-transferable and non-tradable, and any one person's shares cannot be canceled unless more than two-thirds of the shareholders agree. At present, the company's fixed assets include Dayuhe Armory, Dayuhe Naval Shipyard, Building Material Factory (including two brick kilns, two lime kilns, two cement kilns, a lime mine and 300 mu of clay soil borrowing point), fishery Product processing plants, machine textile factories, livestock farms, Dayu River Transportation Company.” Tang Yuan said, “As for Dongfang Port Wharf, four forts, Highway 1, Dingyuan Salt Field, Mint, several schools, various warehouses and other The farmland water conservancy facilities will be handed over to the Central People's Government. In addition, the Dong'an Company has paid a total of 1630 yuan in various taxes since 5 to the state treasury. Of course, the funds have not yet arrived."

Wang Tiechui finally understood after listening for a long time.This is going to be separated!After all, this country is not the private property of their 500 people, and now this new country has more than 7000 citizens.But this East Coast company is too strong, it almost took away all the valuable assets that everyone currently has, leaving the dignified central government poor and useless, which is really shameful.

"Then what about the supplies we seized by the fleet this time? Who is responsible for it?"

"According to the agreement, these are to be handed over to the central treasury." Tangyuan said, "At present, all the navy and army have been handed over to the central government. All future military expenditures, war indemnities, and seizures will be taken care of by the central government. So, your 45000 The silver in pesos is going to the treasury."

"Okay. I figured it out this time. We've gained a lot this time. There are still a lot of valuable furs, woolen blankets, gunpowder and so on on the Falkland Islands. By the way, Tangyuan, now the East Coast Company and the Central Government are two A team and a team?" Wang Tiechui asked.

"Some departments are, some departments are not." Tangyuan replied, "I have resigned from the position of finance minister of the East Coast Company, and now I am concentrating on serving as the first finance minister of the Republic. In the future, I will rely on the support of my brothers Nie Xiaoqian took over as the financial director of Dongan Company, she is a lesbian, everyone should support her work, after all, this company is related to the common interests of more than 500 of us.”

Everyone talked for a while, and then dispersed.Tangyuan called a squad of police officers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and under their escort, they pulled dozens of boxes of silver bars directly into the Mint by the Dayu River.He took a rough look at the fineness of these silver bars, and felt that they were not bad. Calculated according to the current exchange rate between the Chinese yuan and the Spanish peso (1 peso = 8 riyals), these silver bars can be minted for more than 36000 yuan. Said it was a great supplement.

Wang Tiehammer and the navy group continued to chat on the pier, while waiting for the pier to unload, while taking the opportunity to describe to Wang Qinian and others the specific actions of breaking the fleet after leaving the port last time.Since the crossing of the Strait of Magellan in May, the fleet has been swaying around the coast of Chile for more than a month. During this period, it captured three Spanish towns, captured a Spanish gunboat, and indirectly supported the independence movement of the Araucan people. .Wang Qinian and the others were stunned when they heard this, they originally only expected this group of people to play a role of harassment and containment, but they didn't expect that they would cause so many things.

"Then the rest of your ships are still berthed in Falkland Island?" Wang Qinian asked.

"Well." Wang Tiehammer nodded, "Actually, I hope the Ministry of the Navy will formally consider whether to set up a port on the Falkland Island. The strategic location of the Falkland Island is very important. When entering and leaving the Strait of Magellan, supplies can be obtained there, and once In bad weather, you can also enter the port to take shelter from the wind, which is very useful. At present, there are some whaling ships from other countries and ships that hunt seals and sea lions there to supply fresh water or shelter from the wind. If we occupy it, there will be a lot of benefits .”

"This matter can be considered." Wang Qinian said after deliberation, "You know, our manpower and material resources are very limited at present, and I am afraid that we don't have much energy to take care of such a distant place. But you are also capable, and the official port is not good. But we can convince the executive to keep a simple small port there."

"I thought so too." Wang Tiechui said happily, "Okay, I'll tell Lao Xiao and the others when I go back this time. I don't think I'll bring those livestock back, but let them be raised there. Although the weather there is not good , but the grazing conditions are not bad, and after a long time, we may have a large herd of livestock."

At noon, Yunsheng No. [-] finally unloaded all the cargo.After some simple maintenance, he set sail again and headed south to the Malvinas Islands to pick up the remaining ships and return home.

(End of this chapter)