"Mr. Lu, Bai Ge sent a telegram from the United States. The machine we wanted has been loaded in the United States and is expected to reach China in a month. This is the contact radio channel of the cargo ship!" Xiao Xue's belly gradually grew bigger. Lu Shan ordered her to do only lighter things. She shouldn't have come here in person for running around like this.

However, some telegrams and documents involving special confidentiality can only be investigated by her in person, and there is nothing we can do about it!

Finally, Lu Shan made a compromise. Xiao Xue only dealt with this type of telegrams and documents with high confidentiality, and handed over the rest to other people in the Intelligence Bureau for temporary management.

In addition, the work of the Intelligence Bureau and the Confidential Department overlaps. In order to divide their respective powers, the Intelligence Bureau handed over radio communications involving internal Dongkang and radio communications with other domestic forces or governments to the Headquarters' Confidential Department, and appointed a trusted person to serve as the head of the Confidential Department!

Lu Shanjin had carefully considered it and appointed intelligence counselor Wei Yubin as the head of the confidential department.

"Okay, I know, it's Victoria, right? The ship will dock in Hong Kong and then head north?"

"Yes, this should be the case according to the scheduled route. This batch of special machines is not the most advanced technology. Bai Ge is worried that he will encounter trouble on the way. What she means, should we send someone to pick him up halfway?" Xiao Xue said.

"Well, her concerns make sense. In this way, you send a secret telegram to Hai Dongqing and ask him to arrange a reliable person to go to Hong Kong in the near future to ensure the safe transport of these machines back!" Lu Shan ordered.

"Okay, I'll do it now!" Xiao Xue nodded and said.

"Feng Yun, come in and notify the members of the Northern Bank Preparatory Committee. I want to hold a progress meeting!" Lu Shan ordered.

"Where is the time?"

"Just go up tomorrow at nine o'clock, go!"

"OK!"

The next morning, the meeting was held as scheduled. The leader of the Northern Bank Preparatory Committee was Qin Shiyu, the mayor of Harbin.

"The Northern Bank is headquartered in the original Imperial and Russian era, the China-Russia Daosheng Bank was listed in Harbin..."

"In the early stage, we did a lot of research work, believing that we abandoned our current bank-based financial policies and implemented paper-based currency!" Qin Shiyu introduced, "The problem now is that domestic financial policies are very chaotic, and there is no unified standard. Any bank can issue currency and bonds. Therefore, precious gold and physical silver transactions have always occupied the mainstream of market transactions. The listing and issuance of paper money depreciates very quickly. Will the currency we issue also encounter such a situation?"

"I can't say much about this now. Whether a currency can withstand the test is related to the success or failure of our financial policies!"

"Give up the silver standard does not mean that we will not mint silver dollars, but we will gradually reduce the casting of silver dollars, and then gradually become over-billed!" Lu Shan said, "This is taking into account the ability of market acceptance and the general understanding of our people!"

"Our main purpose is to promote paper currency. We can issue as much as we have the ability to guarantee. We must never issue it indiscriminately. We cannot throw away our credibility like others, for our own interests!"

"According to our plan, we are expected to publicly release our first banknote today in September. Before that, I plan to issue and try it out on a small scale. Take a look at the market reaction and the total face value is about three million!" Qin Shiyu said.

"Well. This idea is very good. How is the sample coin design?" Lu Shan nodded and asked with concern.

"According to your requirements, we will redesign the sample coins, you can take a look!" The person in charge of Beipiao design was a female designer named Lin, and Lu Shan ordered someone to invite him from Yenching University in person.

"Not bad, very beautiful. Thank you for your hard work in Designer Lin!" Lu Shan took it and said happily after seeing it.

"Is this the first set?"

“Yes, we have a spare design!”

"Take it over and let me see!" Lu Shan asked.

Designer Lin took out another set of plans and handed them over. One of these two sets of plans was mainly designed with historical figures and the other set with contemporary figures as the theme!

Who is qualified to print their avatars on currency? Apart from the founding father, I'm afraid no one has the qualification yet.

"Ms. Lin, can these two solutions be compromised? We use historical figures for big coins and contemporary figures for small coins. As for coins, we need to use character avatars. We directly use some flowers that can represent special Chinese products, such as peonies. What do you think?"

"In addition, this small-scale banknote can be considered as representative figures. Since ancient times, we have divided people's professions into scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. We can combine these four types of people and add a soldier. What do you think?"

"Mr. Lu's suggestion is very good. The five people not only represent all classes of our Chinese, but also mean the meaning of the five-nation republic!" The beautiful female designer said excitedly.

"I just made a suggestion. If the technical level cannot be achieved, we can adopt it in future plans!" Lu Shan said with a smile.

"OK!"

"As for special printing equipment, we have made a set from abroad and are on the way back. Although our existing equipment can also be printed, there are too few anti-counterfeiting marks that can be used, so we can only use it temporarily!" Qin Shiyu said.

"How to solve the problem of currency paper raw materials?"

"We were originally considering importing, but not to mention the long journey of importing. If there is a problem, it will be a big trouble, so we decided to study our own currency paper!"

"Money paper requires wear resistance, folding resistance, not easy to be dirty, corrosion, etc. The research on such papers is still a blank in our country. Comparing paper currencies from various countries, the technology of the United Kingdom and the United States is worth learning from. After our research on counter-engineering, we have initially figured out the composition of paper currencies in some major countries in the world. But what we want is not to know their currency composition, but how they produce these papers!" Professor Zhang, who is engaged in special paper research, said, "At present, our work is not progressing smoothly, and we lack the raw materials for experiments!"

"Professor Zhang doesn't have to worry about the raw materials. This time, there are some raw materials and printing inks that come back with the equipment. We may not be able to use our own things now, but in the future we must not have our own special paper and printing inks!" Lu Shan said solemnly.

China's foundation is too weak. If you want to catch up, you can't do without talent or time. Both must be taken seriously.

"It's February now, and the sample coin plan for Beipiao must be produced at the end of March. We will issue it in June. If the issuance goes very smoothly and the market recognizes it, we will issue it on a large scale in September. Our colleagues ban the circulation of some illegal currencies and notes!" Lu Shan said.

"Mr. Lu, what is our currency? The name of Beipiao doesn't seem to sound good?" Someone suggested.

"This is indeed a problem. You can say what ideas and suggestions you have. If we focus on our minds, we can always come up with a loud name?" Lu Shan smiled. Of course, he thought of a name, but this name cannot be used.

As for Beipiao, this is just a local currency, far from a national currency. Not to mention it has been recognized internationally!

He can only get the recognition of his own people first. If he doesn’t recognize him, then what else can he talk about?

"Aren't we the Republic of China? Let's call Minyuan?"

"Minyuan. It sounds not nice, it's better to call it Huayuan!" Someone objected.

"Why not call it Ferbia?"

Lu Shan almost squirted out a sip of water. He was engaged in legal currency, so what should Chiang Kai-shek call the future currency reform?

"French currency, legal currency, this name is good!" Qin Shiyu said.

"No, it sounds a bit like French currency!" The objection came as scheduled.

"that is……"

"It's better to call it Beipiao. Although it sounds a bit tacky, it also shows the regional characteristics of our issuance of currency!" Lu Shan said.

After all, I finally returned to the origin, but "Beipiao" is indeed not loud enough, but there is no way. Whether Beiipiao can be successfully issued is now unknown. If you think this name is not good, you can still change it in the future!

The meeting was held until twelve o'clock noon, discussing the design of the sample coins, the source of special currency papers and inks, the basic color of the currency, the name of the currency, issuance schedule, etc., all of which were clearly defined. If not, the timetable was set and completed within a time limit!

The reason why Lu Shan implemented monetary reform in this way and abandoned the silver standard was mainly aimed at a bill that the United States will pass next year: the Silver Act.

It is this bill that the US silver group lobbied Congress to acquire silver to raise the price of silver and seek benefits for the silver group!

An important reason why the Silver Group lobbies the US Congress is to make the currencies of the silver standard appreciate, so that they can have enough financial resources to purchase excess U.S. products, increase U.S. exports, and boost U.S. economy!

At this time, who is the largest silver standard country? There is no doubt that it is China.

Since the financial crisis, silver prices have fallen significantly, and Chinese commodities are more competitive internationally than other countries. The financial crisis can be said to be a good opportunity for China to boost national industry.

However, after the introduction of the Silver Act, the price of silver was intervened by the US government and the price of silver rose sharply. As a result, China's currency appreciated, it seemed that its wealth increased. However, our commodity prices rose accordingly, and our international competitiveness weakened, domestic political instability, inflation, silver smuggling and other factors caused the domestic currency ownership to decrease sharply. The large amount of silver exports led to the continuous rise of silver prices!

China's economy suffered a heavy blow, but the United States did not make much profit. The biggest profit was Japan, the biggest enemy of China and the United States!

Japan frantically plundered silver in China and sold it in London, obtaining a large amount of funds to build warships and expand its military equipment, laying the groundwork for its future full-scale invasion of China.

Lu Shan could not stop the passage of the Silver Act. Even if Bai Jing and Roosevelt had such a harmonious personal relationship, Bai Jing could not stop the powerful silver group within the Democratic Party.

Instead of doing this, it is better to go with the flow and prepare early before the "Silver Act" is introduced!

The purpose of giving up the silver standard and issuing paper money is to nationalize the private silver, so that a large amount of silver can be controlled by artificially controlling the export of silver!

Although he can't control himself, he can always control himself.

Also, before the Silver Act was passed, a large amount of silver was acquired from abroad. Japan, India and some Southeast Asian countries all had a large amount of silver, which became Lu Shan’s target!

Although doing this is a bit insulting, he couldn't take care of it for his own benefit.

Especially in Japan, Lu Shan arranged for Mieko Sakai back to Japan with the purpose of secretly purchasing a large amount of silver reserves.

Although Mieko Sakai didn't know what Lu Shan was going to do, she still seriously executed his orders!

In Japan, Mieko Sakai established a private bank belonging to the Shingoe Group according to Luyama's order: Shingoe Bank.

Using this bank, in addition to providing a large amount of funds for the Shinyue Group, it is also quietly purchasing large quantities of silver.

Backed by the big tree of Chuanyue Group, Chuanyue Bank has developed rapidly. In just half a year, in addition to opening dozens of branches in Japan, it has also launched branches or agency points abroad, including Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, India, London, France, Paris, New York, the United States, and Washington!

After the Shibuyuki Group announced its entry into the shipbuilding industry, it received support from the Japanese Navy. After acquiring several small shipyards, it merged into a new Shibuyuki Shibuyuki Shibu.

And construction of their own docks was started in three coastal cities in Qingdao, Dalian and Shanghai to dock their own ships.

In fact, at this time, Chuanyue Group was just a powerful empty shell, and it was already heavily in debt, but no one noticed the tricks in it, and even if someone discovered it, he would not dare to say it out.

Because if such a large group goes bankrupt, the negative impact will be huge, and it may be a disaster at that time!

Especially for the current turbulent Manchukuo, the Chuanyue Group can be said to be a stabilizing force to help them stabilize and control the economy in the area!

After all, this group is still operating efficiently and orderly, and there is no sign of instability.

As for Lu Shan, he didn't want Chuanyue Group to go bankrupt, because then all his early efforts would be in vain!

As long as you maintain high profits, continuously launch new best-selling products, and increase the efforts to recover funds, the blind expansion of Chuanyue Group can lead to a broken capital chain at any time, and it will not happen!

Lu Shan doesn’t use the money from Chuanyue Group at all now, so he uses it all for expansion.

The Camel-waisted gold mine is Lushan’s biggest reliance. The output of gold mines has steadily increased, with a daily output of more than 200 kilograms of gold sand. If it were not for the need to be kept confidential and large-scale mining could not be mined, the output would have to double!
Chapter completed!