The newly issued banknotes in Shamen Town, it turned out that the heavy copper coins of more than ten or twenty kilograms that were issued in their hands were replaced by a few thin pieces of colorful paper. This huge change caught many people off guard at first. Faced with this piece of paper, some older people were full of confusion and worry. However, since Li Guan had already expected the situation of this Xingneng, the town immediately announced many notices.

The announcement announced that the banknotes issued can be exchanged for grain, cloth, etc. at any time, and even the money can be used to buy new houses in the city, or when the land in a designated manor outside the city was purchased, everyone immediately settled down. At the beginning, some old people took the newly issued banknotes to buy and stock up on grain in the warehouse, but when everyone saw how much money they took out, they sold it to everyone in the warehouse, and did not refuse at all, and everyone's worrying trend passed.

The real thing about banknotes is the merchants on the island such as Changjie. Shamen Town is becoming more and more prosperous, and the merchants on the island are also becoming more and more popular. Now Li Guan ordered all merchants to collect banknotes as payments. Even the crew members who came to the island had to exchange money and silk for money as soon as they got on the dock to consume on the island. If they did not comply with the new regulations and directly collected copper coins and silk, two currencies that were already prohibited on the island, the merchants would be punished with a severe fine.

If it were just like this, it would be fine. Now the key thing is that the receipt of the receipt can only be circulated on the island. If they want to exchange the debt for money, they have to go to the money shop to do business and exchange business. What makes them even more unhappy is that merchants must pay the handling fee if they exchange the money in their hands for money. In the eyes of merchants, this is Li Guan's previous promise to not collect their commercial tax. The handling fee is commercial tax. Moreover, the commercial tax is very tricky. It seems clear how much money they have been in business when they exchange it, unless they hold the colorful paper and don't take action.

The issuance and circulation of banknotes on the island soon suppressed the hidden money shortage.

But Li Guan knew in his heart that the bustling and lively surface was actually just an appearance, and the island was still short of money. Banknotes can only be circulated internally. When it comes to external factors, it will cost as much as possible. This cannot be replaced by banknotes.

By early April, the entire army in Shamen Town had completed the spring outfits again. Originally, this batch of spring outfits had to be replaced in February. However, due to various reasons, the clothing workshop was unable to be exchanged for a long time. Seeing that the spring was about to be over, the workshop had only delivered the spring outfits of more than 8,000 people.

Shamen Town Army uniforms are all four seasons. Each season is two sets of each person. This is a system set by Li Guan early, which has always made Zhang Hong, the housekeeper a little dissatisfied. In his opinion, soldiers' military uniforms are enough for summer and winter. It is a bit extravagant to get a military uniform in spring, summer, autumn and winter. But Li Guan has always insisted that not only the military uniforms of the four seasons, but also the shoes, socks and underwear are all distributed in a regular manner. In addition to military uniforms and rations, even the towels for soldiers washing their faces, brushing their teeth, tooth powder, soaps and soaps for bathing, and buckets and rice bowls are all distributed in a unified manner.

In Li Guan's words, the army is sacred, and soldiers must not be regarded as a group of slaves or beggars. If the soldiers have no image at all, then how can they find the sense of honor? How can they expect them to defend their country and fight on the battlefield?

Money needs to be spent. Zhang Hong, a conservative old rich man, once he sees that money is used quickly, he thinks of saving money.

But for Li Guan, if you don’t have enough money, you have to make money. Instead of thinking about how to spend a penny in half. Although it is necessary to reduce expenses, it is more important to open source.

Sitting in the Zhenjiang Mansion, Li Guan was also in a state of turmoil. In April, he changed into a much lighter spring outfit and became much lighter. But what bothers him now is still money. Without money, he can't buy food, raw materials for equipment, and even can't guarantee exchange of money for the people.

But this money is really hard to make. Last month's bandit suppression was good, and it wiped out more than 20 large and small counterfeits, making a lot of extra money. But now, there are no pirates that can be wiped out in the coastal areas of Dengzhou. The rest are either on the abdomen of land or outside Dengzhou. Li Guan sent troops to the coast of Dengzhou to suppress bandits, which was crossing the border, just because he acted quickly every time, and he only cared about suppressing bandits and searching the property in the nest, and even ignored it. Li Guan did not report the merits of the bandits who wiped out bandits, and let the local governments take credit, so everyone was at peace and no one told Li Guan to cross the border and send troops.

It was good to be on the coast before, but now if you want to go deep into the inland to suppress bandits, it is a bit inappropriate, let alone go to other states to suppress bandits. Sending troops across the border is always a taboo. In Dengzhou, there are always Song Wei and others who are guarding it. It would be bad if you go to other people's territory to make any misunderstandings.

Li Guan is a little regretful now. If he is bolder, he would just cooperate with Wang Xianzhi and the others to sell private salt. Now Nantuozi Salt Factory has produced three batches of salt, and has saved more than 100,000 stones of salt but has not yet started selling it. If he cooperates with Wang Xianzhi, a big salt vendor, the more than 100,000 stones of salt will be tens of thousands of stagnant of cash.

Where can I get the money, or who should I sell this batch of salt to?

When Li Guan was frowning, Li Wei suddenly came to report that it was the people from the reconnaissance camp who found several suspicious ships on the periphery of the Pearl Waterway. They stepped forward to surround the ship. After searching, someone on the ship claimed to be an envoy from Duli Town and came to ask for Li Guan to see him.

Just now, the number one general of Wang Xianzhi, Shang Junchang, came to ask for a meeting, but was arrested by Li Guan and sent to Dengzhou. In a blink of an eye, another envoy from Duli Town came. What's wrong?

"The subordinates may know some internal reasons." Seeing that Li Guan was a little puzzled, Li Wei hurriedly replied: "The spies sent by the reconnaissance camp in the Liaohai have just reported that in the middle of the night, Li Lingpu from Qingnipu suddenly sent a fleet to attack a cruise squadron in Duli Town. Qingnipu used the divine fire we gave them and caught Duli Town off guard. The patrol squadron of the opponent's eleven ships was completely wiped out."

The result of this battle is amazing. Although the Qingnipu fleet has more than 3,000 people, the warships and sailors are far inferior to the equipment of the Duli Town Joint Fleet. Although only one squadron was annihilated, the squadron of these eleven ships had a total of 2,000 people. In terms of strength, they were even above the Qingnipu fleet. But now, they were completely annihilated before even the joint fleet came to reinforce.

Being sneak attack was one of the reasons for their defeat. The bigger reason was that Qingnipu used divine fire in this battle. This extremely powerful divine fire is not only powerful, but also has its deterrent power. The divine fire that can burn when exposed to water, can never be extinguished, can quickly burn a ship, and even ignite other ships is the reason why the Dulizhen squadron was in chaos after the attack and was eventually completely annihilated.

This battle shocked the merchants in Duli Town. Without understanding what that kind of divine fire was, they no longer dared to send a fleet to cruise outside Qingni Port. They immediately withdrew all fleets back to the port and immediately sent envoys to Shamen Town.

"They actually knew that we sold this divine fire to Qingnipu, and the news was very well-informed." Hearing that there was such an inside story, Li Guan immediately understood the other party's purpose. Needless to say, these merchants must have wanted to buy the divine fire.

"The subordinates thought that as long as the price they gave was high, it would be okay to sell some to them. Anyway, didn't the general say that no one could break the divine fire?" Li Wei said on the side. He also knew that Li Guan was looking for a way to make money recently.

"A gentleman loves money, but he gets it well. This divine fire is not an ordinary commodity. Since we sell it to our allies at a high price, we can no longer sell it to our enemies easily. Have you ever thought that if we sell it to Duli Shenhuo, they are likely to take it to deal with us?" Li Yan shook his head.

"If Zhang Bingcao receives people, everything else is easy to discuss. We may sell all kinds of goods to each other, but there is no need to discuss the Shenhuo." Although we know that if we are willing to sell, Shenhuo will definitely be able to sell a super high price, Shenhuo is completely called a strategic weapon. Such a strike force Li Guan and Qingnipu strictly control the quantity for sale, so how can we sell it to the rival Duli Town for a little money?

Duli Town came straight towards the Divine Fire, but he didn't even meet Li Yan. Although they were quite fond of many commodities on the island, they were not really here to discuss these businesses at this time. After staying for a day, they saw that they didn't have the chance to see Li Yan, they returned in disappointment. They returned to Duli Town to report to the city lord Wang Pu, and Wang Pu was furious.

Now he sent people to Dengzhou again, but this time he went straight to Da Xie Fort City. The one who came was the Feng family in Duli Town. The Duli Town squadron was wiped out last time. Duli Town actually didn't know what position this divine fire played in this battle. But they knew that Feng Zhang had escaped from Li Guan's divine fire attack, so they specially sent a representative of the Feng family to come, wanting to know what kind of terrifying weapon this was.

"Horror, that is, the ghost fire from hell, which is more than ten times stronger than ordinary tincture oil or even fierce tincture oil. This is simply a ghost fire born specifically for naval battles, specifically for warships. There is no power to fight back in front of this ghost fire. There may be some hope in the battle at sea, but if it is a shore defense dock equipped with this ghost fire, there is no hope at all." Faced with the fact that he was a member of his uncle's family, Feng Zhang's face was pale. Speaking of this ghost fire, it seemed that the battlefield scene of that day was still emerging in front of his eyes.
Chapter completed!