The Indian tribes in the Sierra Nevada had never been exposed to foreign civilizations before meeting Ruchi and the others; in addition, they were not like the Indian empires in South America and Central America, and their understanding of gold was limited to good-looking and they did not recognize the value of it at all.

You should know that the currency used by these indigenous people is not gold and silver, but shell coins. Therefore, in this year, we should judge whether an Indian is rich, it depends on how many shells hung on his necklace.

Ruchi and his friends wandered around the Colomma area for two days. After returning to the village of the Neesonan, he negotiated with the Chief of Neesonan with the help of Baibai and Suk to purchase land within a radius of five kilometers of Colomma.

In this year, I had to talk about fate with Indians when buying land. If you like it, you can talk about anything and don’t like it. After a meeting with the elders in the tribe, the chief opened twenty pairs of scissors, five hand saws, and two golden insulation blankets.

Ruchi was very happy, but due to poor language communication and lack of understanding of Indian customs, he did not know at this time. Including the previous seventy square kilometers, the Indians were not "selling land" rather than saying that they were lending land.

In their opinion, it is normal for outsiders to borrow land that they cannot use for survival. However, once their ethnic group has experienced several generations of development and population expansion, it is natural to take it back. In addition, even if the right to use the land is temporarily transferred, their ethnic group has the right to hunt there.

When the expedition returned to Kinmen Fortress with a full load, it was already mid-January 1794.

Before returning to the fortress, Ruqi had a special talk with the officers and soldiers in the expedition team, informing them that all the gold they found had to be paid, and they would pay the bonus at a price of one to ten, and the money would be directly transferred to their respective allowance accounts. As for the discovery of gold, it must be strictly confidential and must not be spread. Violators will be repaid.

Thirty members did not disagree with this order. Although this trip was hard, everyone gained a lot, far exceeding expectations. Under the current monetary system of Beihai Town, precious metals including gold and silver ingots are strictly prohibited from being traded privately. They must go to Beihai Bank or savings bank to exchange for Beihai Yuan. Once the security police find out that gold and silver transactions are used in metal form, both parties will not only be fined twice the transaction amount, but will also be sentenced to three to six months of labor.

After returning to the fortress, Ruchi immediately sent a telegram to Zhao Xin, and then went to San Jose to inspect Guadalupe. In the telegram, he told everything was going well, and one of the three target areas had been found, so that the next step could be taken. In addition, he also asked something in the telegram, that is, whether it is time and space or another time and space, it is almost the New Year. When Boss Zhao came to pick him up, he would bring you some New Year goods.

At this time, Zhao Xin is about to embark on the annual pick-up journey again. In fact, this is also an important moment for him to go to inspect the local area and send troops with his legitimate reputation. For those officers and soldiers who are fighting abroad, in addition to going home to reunite with their relatives, what else can be more inspiring than his commander who travels thousands of miles to visit him for comfort?

In the large study room of Zhao Xin's house, Li Ji smiled and took the tea handed over by A Miao. As soon as his butt was next to the chair, he heard Zhao Xin say: "Have you collected the letters and gifts from the families of the garrison troops in various places?"

Liji hurriedly got up, and there was no time to put down the cover bowl in his hand. He held it in both hands and replied: "The Logistics Command has checked it one by one according to the roster. I asked them to check it again yesterday to ensure that they will not go on business."

Zhao Xin nodded slightly and said, "I have to check it carefully. If the things from Zhang San's family were put into Li Si's package like last year, the soldiers would not say anything, but they should scold me in their hearts."

Li Ji could only laugh at him when he heard this. The Northern Navy currently has as many as 60,000 foreign troops. In terms of communication alone, there are tens of thousands of letters and parcels every month, which is even higher during the Chinese New Year. In the past, it was inevitable that something went wrong. However, this year the Logistics Command established a special agency responsible for military mail and used a barcode system. The probability of errors can be reduced to one in a million.

Nowadays, Beihai Town is becoming larger and larger, and there are more and more newly established institutions. The continuous introduction of corresponding systems has led to the system costs.

Taking 1792 as an example, the fiscal revenue of the entire Beihai Town for the whole year was 71.44 million Beihai yuan, almost all of which came from tax revenue. Among them, the tariff revenue at ports in various places accounted for 35.5%, including the three ports of Chiyan City, Anping Port and Whale Port; the transfer tax of goods transactions accounted for 24.9%, and the others included stamp duty, currency arbitrage, seigniorage, and the confiscated part of the Khalkha princes and temple property accounted for 39.6%.

In terms of expenditure, the North Navy's military expenditure was more than 41 million yuan, and the civil affairs expenditure, including transportation, medical care, and transportation, was 33 million yuan, which was close to 75 million yuan. This did not include shipbuilding and railway expenditures. The railway cost from Heilongjiang City to Jaxa alone was 170 million yuan.

Such a large amount of expenses can no longer withstand the output of Zhao Xin and several gold mines. In view of this, Chen Qingsong began to issue a year ago a public bond of 50 million Beihai yuan, equivalent to 10 million taels of silver, to be sold to Beihai Town and the Qing Dynasty. The face-to-face interest rate is 3.5%, and it lasts for ten years.

After half a year of early investigation, the Intelligence Bureau has confirmed that the salt merchants, Shanxi merchants and Thirteen corpses under the Qing Dynasty can subscribe to 50%; while the officials, gentry and powerful people of the Qing Dynasty can subscribe to 30%, and the remaining 20% ​​will be sold within Beihai Town.

From officials to merchants within the Qing Dynasty, everyone believed that they bought Zhang Baosheng’s "ship ticket" for paying real money to buy Beihai Town public debts. Even after Heshen learned about it, he said through Liu Quan that he wanted to buy 300,000 taels.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! With the guarantee in the sales channel, the Beihai Town 29-person committee passed it, which is a formality. After all, everyone knows what the income and expenditure structure over the years is.

Zhao Xin took a sip of tea and asked, "What do you think about issuing public debt next year?"

"Everyone has no objection." Li Ji thought for a while and said sincerely: "Lord, you are the heaven of Beihai Town. Without you, we will not be today. Now you don't have enough money. Even if you ask everyone to donate, no one will say anything. Why bother paying interest and principal? "

Zhao Xin's expression of laughter just now gradually calmed down and stared at Li Ji and said, "Didn't you go to listen to the public debt study class yesterday?"

Liji nodded, "No...Xiaochun had a fever yesterday, so I didn't go."

Zhao Xin frowned and said with concern: "Oh? Then let A Miao go over and take a look. This child has a premature birth and his physique is too weak."

Xiaochun is the youngest daughter of Liji and Shino. After Wu Xianning prescribed medicine for treatment in the first few years, Shino's symptoms of dampness, heat, blood stasis gradually improved, and it was natural to get pregnant and have children. The two now have a son and a daughter. Because of the well-known relationship with Liji and his wife, the names of the two children were given by Zhao Xin. The son was named Zhao Qi, three years old; the daughter was named Xiaochun, less than one year old.

While the two were chatting, A Miao pushed the door and walked in, frowned and said to Zhao Xin, "That woman is here again. Can you see me?"

Zhao Xin knew who she was talking about. The other party had asked to see him twice this month and he ignored him because he was too busy. However, considering the other party's identity, it would be inappropriate to see him again, so he said, "Please sit in the flower hall for a while, I'll be there later."

Seeing that Zhao Xin had something to do, Li Ji was about to take his leave. Zhao Xin called him, stood up and signaled to go out together, and asked while walking, "The matters in Kyoto must be stepped up. Jia He and the others have been there for almost a year, right?"

Li Ji whispered: "One of ours has already sneaked into the Xianyuangong home as a chef. After the new palace was completed, the man rarely showed up. If he wants to attract him, he must make the Xianyuangong seriously ill in order to take advantage of the opportunity to visit him."

Li Ji deliberately emphasized his tone on the word "seriously ill". Zhao Xin nodded silently, patted the other party's shoulder and said, "Tell Jia He and the others, don't worry too much, I'm not the one who cooks a dog if you die."

“Yes!”

The two walked along the corridor one by one to the door of the flower hall, and Liji went out from the side door next to it. Zhao Xin stood at the door hesitated for a moment, lifted the curtain and entered the warm flower hall as warm as spring. When he was bypassing the screen, he saw Shen Xuan and A Miao talking with a white woman with silver hair.

The woman sat opposite Ah Miao, with a faint white powder on her face and her two blue eyes that were particularly eye-catching. She wore a gray sea otter fur hat, a black European simple satin skirt, a cross hanging around her neck, and a snow-white fox fur on her shoulders. Under the skirt was exposed, a pair of black pointed high-waisted leather boots.

Zhao Xin smiled and greeted in French: "Hello, Your Highness, Princess."

The visitor was Louis XVI's sister, Mrs. Elizabeth, the aunt of Louis Charles. It has been more than a year since Mrs. Elizabeth and Louis Charles, who have vowed to never marry for life, have been in Beihai Town for more than a year. When they first arrived, Zhao Xin placed the three of them in a yard two kilometers away from his home. It was originally Liu Zheng's residence, but since Liu Zheng took his two wives to Culun, the house was vacant.

In the first two months, in addition to Dejine and his son, there were ten Indian maids who were with Louis and Charles every day, who were given to Zhao Xin by Tipu Sultan, but were left by Deng Fei in Pazayalai. Fortunately, these beautiful Indian girls were able to sing and dance, and could speak a few French words, which made the three of them not so bored at the beginning.

In addition, the intelligence agency has to guard three people out for a day every week, and Zhao Xin also gives them his carriage. Anyway, as long as you don’t run into Condorse’s family, the four gods and their families.

Once, Mrs. Elizabeth brought Louis Charlotte and Charlotte to visit Zhao Xin's house. When the two children saw the yard full of cats, they shouted excitedly. They played with Zhao Xin's son Momo for an afternoon, and took away two of Duofu offspring before leaving.

To be honest, Zhao Xin has ten thousand ways to make Louis Charles and his sister live in Beihai Town. Just the toys he sent people to send him every now and then, the two children can be addicted to it.

But Madame Elizabeth was different. She shouldered the heavy trust of her brother Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and it was her mission to restore the French Bourbon dynasty. After dazzled, the woman quickly calmed down and began to consider the future.

So, Degine's father, Old Degine, became the tutor of two children. Jiao Xun, who was busy preparing for the Higher Polytechnic Institute with several people, was also invited by Degine to become the Chinese teacher of the two children and Mrs. Elizabeth, with classes three days a week, two hours a day each time.

Before Zhao Xin went to Bacheng to command the battle, he and Mrs. Elizabeth reached a preliminary memorandum of agreement.

After the Northern Navy intervened in local governance and the British war, Governor Leclerc, who was loyal to the king, would help the French Indian colony to regain control, clean up the republicans, and use this as the base camp for counterattacking the First French Republic. In addition, the Northern Navy would also provide military training and weapon assistance to the French colonial forces so that Louis Charles could personally control an army that was loyal to him. Once all the above conditions were met, Louis Charles and the other three could go to local governance.

In exchange, Louischar had to obtain support from Beihai Town on the condition of transferring French Louisiana; as for Beihai Town's total price for Louisiana, it was 40 million Beihai dollars. If it was converted into francs, it would be 66.6666 million francs, which was really smooth!

Of course, the military aid provided by Beihai Town must be deducted from the more than 60 million francs. As for Zhao Xin and his team who rushed into the Temple Tower to save people and brought the three of them back to Asia from Europe, they would not charge any money, which was considered a gift from friendship.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The reason why the agreement between the two was in the form of a memorandum was first because Louis Cial was only eight years old this year and he had not yet been recognized by the royal families of European countries, especially in need of allegiance to his uncle, the leader of the royalist Party Count Artuva.

The second is Louisiana - the area west of the Mississippi River is still in the hands of Spain. When the "Seven Years' War" was about to end, Louis XVI was about to lose, so in order to retain the territory of North America, he secretly signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau with Spain and gave the Louisiana area to the Spanish king who was also the Bourbon family. Now if you want to get it back from Spain, you must sign another secret agreement, and the British can't interfere with it.

Since the war in Beihai Town started in India, Mrs. Elizabeth, who accidentally learned about this from Jiao Xun, became crazy. Jiao Xun sympathized with this woman, so he tried his best to inquire for her.

But Jiao Xun could only inquire about how much South Asia could do. By December, as the news from Jiao Xun got less and less, Mrs. Elizabeth, who was anxious, could no longer hold back, so she came to Zhao Xin to ask several times in the name of visiting.

The problem is that these two people have been in Bacheng since they were in Bacheng, not knowing it, and Chen Xuan also heard a little bit of the wind, and the boss was unhappy.

Zhao Xin knew that he was in the wrong, and the matter of being busy with negotiations with Li Chao is more important at present, so he has been ruling for no time. However, now Leclerc has returned to the throne of governor, so it is time for the other party to know.

Seeing Zhao Xin coming, the woman slowly stood up and performed a European court ceremony, saying, "Your Highness, it's really not easy to see you."

Zhao Xin made a painful statement and shook his head and smiled: "It's too busy, too busy! You also know that I'm presided over the border negotiations with neighboring countries recently, and this matter is too important."

Although Chen Xuan knew that the two were talking in French, she was still a little unhappy, so she slightly curled her lips and pretended to turn her head and talk to A Miao.

Mrs. Elizabeth had a pair of sapphire-like eyes. At this moment, the light outside the house shone on her, and her eyes were even more brilliant.

Somehow, Zhao Xin suddenly remembered the time they spent alone in Bacheng, and couldn't help but feel a little stunned.
Chapter completed!