As the general manager of logistics affairs in the theater, General Skerry was very interested in preparing to open his own bank in the theater. The shortage of military expenditures and development funds in the theater put him under heavy pressure, and his hair turned three-thirds gray because of this.
1. I have been looking sad all day long, thinking about where to get money or how to save more.
With a bank controlled by the war zone itself, the pressure on funds will be greatly reduced, so General Skerry and Viscount Goodich hit it off immediately, and they had a very speculative conversation, leaving Claude aside in the cold.
Especially after Viscount Gooditch put forward his suggestion of changing all copper coins into cash rolls, General Scree was even more appreciative.
In the financial and monetary system of the Kingdom of Overas, the smallest unit of black iron coins is the penny, one penny is one cent, followed by the bronze coin pfennig, one pfennig is equal to one dime, and ten pfennig is one red copper coin.
Sunar, one sunar is like one dollar. Ten sunar is a small silver coin, a riyaso, which is equal to ten yuan, and ten sunar is a large silver coin, a silver thaler, and a silver thaler is also
It is equivalent to one hundred yuan, and there is a gold crown on top of the silver thaler. Five silver thalers are one gold crown, and the value of one gold crown is equivalent to a five hundred yuan banknote.
It has been nearly 80 years since Stirling IX established this metal currency system. Due to the economic development of the kingdom during the reign of Stirling X, black iron pennies have basically disappeared among the people.
The smallest unit is mainly bronze coin pfennig. For example, a boiled apple the size of a fist is sold for three pfennig, which is three cents, and a teapot of fresh milk is sold for one sunar, which is equivalent to one yuan...
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However, the fact that black iron coins are not used among the people does not mean that black iron coins do not exist. The foundry in the royal capital must cast a batch every year and hand it over to the National Bank. The National Bank also dislikes the fatigue. Although this thing is small, it is very heavy and can be carried in the pocket.
Somewhat disappointing. After five years of war in the eastern region, the kingdom's economy has been slow to recover, and black iron coins are making a comeback among the people. After all, when civilians in towns and villages buy needles, threads, brains, etc., the transactions are between the smallest currency units.
, they sometimes think that one pfennig is too big, and hope to have a monetary unit of five black iron pennies.
The Amphiston Territory is the largest mineral resource development territory among the eight overseas territories. The Mining and Commerce Association (Mining and Commerce Association), which controls the mineral resource development in the territory, secretly smuggled several scraps of gold, silver and copper coins from the Kingdom.
It is planned to directly mint gold, silver and copper coins in overseas territories directly under the jurisdiction to solve the cash problem that overseas territories lack. At the same time, it can also bring an annual income of 500,000 gold crowns to the war zone and alleviate the strain on military expenditures and investment in the development and construction of the territories directly under the jurisdiction.
But the problem is that when it comes to privately casting gold, silver and copper coins, in terms of profit, casting gold crowns and silver thalers is the most cost-effective and the most profitable. The profit from the small silver coin riaso is very small, only 1%
Around 20, but the people in the overseas territories have the most demand for Sunar and Fenni below Riazor. (Mining and Commerce Association) did not get scraps of Sunar and Penny, so they could only cast Fenni.
As a result, the final calculation showed that casting Fenney was almost a rebate, and the labor and material costs spent on it had exceeded the value of Fenney itself. To be honest, the more Fenney was cast, the greater the loss.
(Mining and Commerce Association) does not want to mint pfennig, but the basic monetary units for private transactions are pfennig, sunar and riaso. Although there are transactions of silver thalers and gold crowns, they are in the minority. In the past, they were used for two
The cross-oceanic trade settlement between continents is convenient. Now that the civil war breaks out between the two kings in the kingdom, and the ocean trade routes are cut off, even the countless gold crowns and silver thalers minted by the (Mining and Commerce Association) are of no use.
Now (the Mining and Commerce Association) is using the profits of Riazor to subsidize the losses of foundry Finney, and they all laugh at themselves by saying that they have become excellent foundry agents of the National Bank. Fortunately, they did not get Sunar
A waste version, otherwise you will have to cause more trouble for yourself and do some business that is just for nothing but makes no money.
Therefore, Viscount Goodich's suggestion just solves the urgent problem of lack of copper coins in the war zone. Replacing copper coins with banknotes of the same denomination will not only free the (Mining and Commerce Association) from the loss-making state of Fenney coining bronze coins, but it can even eliminate the need for copper coins.
Recasting small silver coins with low profit margins, such as riaso and thalers, can be completely replaced by banknotes.
In fact, the residents of the Kingdom of Overas also have the habit of saving money privately. They can collect a silver thaler's banknotes and exchange them home from banks opened in war zones. This way, the banknotes can be circulated in overseas territories. No matter what,
It is said that carrying banknotes is lighter than those copper coins. Sometimes a large bag of copper coins is only worth one or two silver thalers. It is indeed a burden and cumbersome to carry it around.
General Skerry and Viscount Goodich became more and more excited as they talked. In the end, General Skerry simply canceled his scheduled trip in the afternoon and took Viscount Gooditch back to the office to discuss the plan to open a war zone bank. Claude
Stay alone in the restaurant.
But Claude was too lazy to deal with this matter. He had his own schedule in the afternoon. After eating and resting for a while, he set off in a carriage with the guards.
Corbichus Port is the capital of the Tiersim Direct Territory, and is divided into an inner city and an outer city. The inner city is inhabited by dignitaries and wealthy families from the direct jurisdiction. The eastern and southern districts of the outer city are inhabited by people from less well-off families.
Kingdom residents and poor people from the Kingdom who have migrated here without personal property. As for the West and North Districts, they are the territory of the Nikancha people who make a living in Kaubicius Port, and are large tracts of low shantytowns.
In the administrative department of Kaubicius Port, there are 70,000 to 80,000 Kingdom residents registered in Kaubicius Port. However, there are more than 300,000 Nikanchas in the West and North Districts. What they did in Kaubicius Port
They are the hardest and most tiring work. Just like in the inner city, all the cleaning work is done by the Nikancha people. The wealthy residents of the Kingdom will usually hire one or two Nikancha maids to do housework.
In the dock area, all the porters are young and strong people from Nikancha.
After the interruption of the ocean trade routes between the kingdom's mainland and overseas territories, the young Nikancha people in Kaupicius Port became the largest unstable group. They lost the biggest opportunity to make money by selling their labor at the dock and could only wander around.
, causing trouble. If the Port of Corbichus had not been under military control, perhaps those Nikancha people would have caused many more riots.
General Skerry told Claude with great concern that one of the biggest problems faced by the three direct territories of Tilsim, Mormali, and Arturas was the treatment of the Nikancha people.
The Kingdom currently has eight overseas territories directly under its jurisdiction. The Vibato Port Territory was formerly a colony of the Kingdom of Hicks. The Hicks captured the Nikancha people as slaves, so much so that the Nikancha people launched a war with the support of the war zone.
The armed riots occupied the coastal mountainous area north of Vibato Port and established the country of the Nikancha people. Therefore, there are no Nikancha settlements in the direct jurisdiction of Vibato Port, and the occasional Nikancha people are just
If you think of picking up some rubbish or stealing something from the municipality directly under the jurisdiction of Vibato Port, you will soon be driven out by the patrol.
Because of the colonial war with the Kingdom of Hicks, the three direct jurisdictions of Cromwell, Beringana, and Robbins first adopted the strategy of clearing the country, and then the Hicks Kingdom army attacked those who remained in Cromwell and the White House.
The massacres at the Nikancha settlements in Ghana's two territories forced the Nikancha people to flee the two territories.
As for the Robisto Direct Territory, because it was related to the Dolinibara River Defense Line and the Claude Defense Line in the Mosilaga Mountains on the border of the Amphiston Direct Territory, even the Nikancha people adopted the strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the country.
They were expelled mainly because of the confidentiality issue of the two lines of defense. Therefore, there are no Nikancha settlements in the three direct jurisdictions of Cromwell, Beringana and Robistoe. It can be said that they are a blank slate.
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After capturing the port of Vibato, it can be said that the colonial war has come to an end. Immediately after the war zone, the two direct jurisdictions of Cromwell and Beringana received two hundred immigrants from relatives of the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion.
With tens of thousands of people, it can be said that these two directly-administered territories have completely become the territory of the Kingdom residents, and there is no place for the Nikancha people anymore. Because the immigrants from the Kingdom who moved to these two directly-administered territories are relatively poor, they have to work hard
He likes to earn his own living and has no habit of hiring foreigners.
The Robistoe Territory became the resettlement site for the residents of the former kingdom of Cromwell, Beringana and Robistoe. In addition, nearly thirty people who followed the legions of officers and soldiers and their relatives migrated to the overseas territories.
The residents of the Kingdom have also become a direct jurisdiction with the residents of the Kingdom as the main body. During the resettlement process, the war zone refused to enter the Nikancha settlement. If there is no guarantee from the original residents of the Kingdom, the Nikancha servants in the homes of those Kingdom residents will
Servants are also unable to enter the Robisto Direct Territory.
All of this is the control regulations formulated by the war zone on the Nikancha people with the assistance of the (Mining and Commerce Association). It is well known that the Nikancha people have bad habits, if it were not for the management experience of big stick and carrot, (Mining and Commerce Association)
There will not be so many young Nikancha miners.
Among all the overseas jurisdictions, the Nikancha people of the Amphiston Municipality are the most well-behaved and law-abiding. This is mainly due to the (Mining and Commerce Association) years of teaching and generosity. In the Amphiston Municipality
The young Nikancha people who work as miners are the ones with the best pay and the most money. They are actually no different from the Kingdom residents who work as miners. They just miss the welfare subsidies of the Kingdom residents. But seeing the Kingdom resident miners and
They do the same work and earn the same amount of money, so the young Nikancha miners are content.
The Nikancha people in the two direct jurisdictions of Robisto and Amphiston under the jurisdiction of the war zone are relatively well-behaved. They don't have those messy problems and will not break out in rebellion. In fact, as long as they uphold a fair and just attitude
To deal with them, the Nikancha people are not as bad as some residents of the kingdom think.
But the Nikancha people in the three direct territories of Mormali, Tilsim and Arturas are the real weirdos. All the bad habits of the Nikancha people can be found in them. These three people
The Nikancha people in these three jurisdictions are the most hopeless race, and all bad adjectives can be applied to them. They often launch inexplicable riots in these three jurisdictions, and dozens of people were suppressed and killed.
People, and then behave honestly for a while. After a while, they started rioting again, and then they were suppressed again, and they continued to behave honestly for a while. I really don’t understand why they did this...
Of course, all this is due to the indifferent management attitude implemented by the governors and admirals of the three direct jurisdictions towards these Nikancha people. In addition to collecting a poll tax on the heads of these Nikancha people every year, the three direct jurisdictions also
Local officials basically regarded these Nikancha people as the lowest servants or objects of exploitation, and from time to time local armed guards were dispatched to raid those Nikancha settlements and search for money.
Secondly, the residents of these three kingdoms directly under the jurisdiction also have racial discrimination in the process of contact with the Nikancha people. They look down on the Nikancha people and habitually bully the Nikancha people. In the process of contact with the Nikancha people,
In the implementation of the labor employment agreement reached by the Nikancha people, it is often the Kingdom residents who break their promises first. This causes the Nikancha people in the three directly governed territories to hate the Kingdom residents very much. This is actually the reason why Nikancha people in the three directly governed territories often break out of their commitments.
The reason for the riots in Kancha people.
The problem is that the total number of kingdom residents in the three directly-administered territories is only more than one million, while the Nikancha people exceed three million. Claude believes that if it were not for the local garrison armed forces of the three direct-administered territories and the people of the kingdom,
Possessing advanced firearms and equipment, which frightened the Nikancha people, perhaps these three directly governed territories had long been like the Vibato Port Colonial County of the Hicks Kingdom, where the Nikancha people rebelled and established an independent country...
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Now that the three directly governed territories of Mormali, Tilsim, and Arturas have been brought under the jurisdiction of the war zone, the more than three million Nikancha people in the three directly governed territories have become the first governance problem. Especially
It was the cross-oceanic trade that was cut off from the mainland of the kingdom, and it had a great impact on the Nikancha people. Their young and strong labor force could not sell their labor in the dock area, and the Nikancha people's romantic land did not have the patronage and sailors of the ocean-going fleet.
For consumption, those Nikancha children cannot get tips or beg for coins from the ocean-going fleet merchants, which makes the atmosphere in the Nikancha shantytowns in the western and northern districts of Kaubicius Port very tense.
Depressed.
General Skerry was originally planning to repeat his old tricks and organize the young Nikancha people to repair the basic transportation roads and public facilities in the three directly-administered territories, so that these Nikancha people could sell their labor to obtain food and clothing for individuals and families. But that was not the case yet.
Within ten days and a half, General Skri found himself facing an embarrassing dilemma. It was a huge mistake to place his hopes on these Nikancha people.
Let's put it this way, in the two direct territories of Cromwell and Beringana, if the immigrants from the Kingdom were organized to build roads, it would take a thousand people and ten days to complete the construction of a ten-mile road foundation. But here, a thousand Ni
The Kancha people were young and strong. After working for ten days, the road was barely paved with two miles of foundation. It was still very unqualified. Most of them were hanging around on the construction site, and they all had big bellies when they ate.
The food they transported and smuggled out was three to four times more than what a thousand people would normally consume...
What made General Skerry even more unexpected was that these Nikancha people started to hold protests and strikes within a few days of working because they demanded salary. General Skerry also wanted to use vouchers to appease these Nikancha people, but these
Nikancha people do not sell accounts. They do not need these vouchers that can be exchanged for daily necessities. What they want is cash. They want to use cash to buy wine and play with women...
General Skerry had no choice but to give up on saving these Nikancha people. He asked Claude to find a way to deal with the Nikancha people in these three jurisdictions. Of course, he did not let Claude command the troops to attack these Nikancha people.
A massacre or something like that, but at least these cancers in the direct-administered territories must be sent away, so as not to stay in the direct-administered territories and embarrass the war zone.
Sending them out? Claude thought of the Nikancha country in the coastal mountainous area in the northern part of the Vibato Port Territory, and planned to send all the Nikancha people from these three territories there, which could be regarded as diverting trouble to the east.
As for what will happen to these Nikancha people when they arrive in their own country, it has nothing to do with Claude and the war zone. They themselves will be responsible for the huge disaster they cause.
But what Claude is facing now is, is the Nikancha country over there willing to accept their own compatriots? This is the first question. The second question is those Nikancha people in the three direct jurisdictions here.
Is the settlement willing to move to that Nikancha country? The Nikancha settlement here has its own elders and leaders. They are probably unwilling to move for the sake of power. In the end, Claude may have to use force to help them...