Chapter 226 The Power of Currency
More than ten days later, Lu Ning's entire new currency exchange had ended. Through strict inspections on the border, a large number of five coins from other counties and states were rejected, allowing Lu Ning and his work to proceed normally. Most of the old currency exchanged was also put into other places. In the end, Lu Ning and the others calculated that Lu Ning did not suffer any losses, but made a big profit. Of course, what they earned was the products and materials of other counties and states purchased with old coins. The one who lost the most was Jizhou next to Lu Ning.
Since the governor Han Fu was not at home and bordered the jurisdiction of Lu Ning, the first thing he had was that Lu Ning and others had left behind tens of billions of old coins, which made the prices in Jizhou soar several times in just over ten days, and a large amount of supplies were purchased by merchants and gathered. All supplies in the Jizhou market were short of all supplies. Even if the merchants had materials, no one was willing to sell them, because the Wuzhu coins depreciated too quickly, and they were priced one a day, so maybe they would be worthless in a few days.
Of course, Lu Ning did not let go of the old nest of Yuan Shao, Bohai, and Lu Ning asked someone to sell nearly 2 billion old currency there to buy all the supplies. When Bohai officials discovered it, the merchants who were operating the specific operations had already transported the supplies and left Bohai. When they wanted to check it, they found that the local merchants who operated the matter were their local merchants. As long as the merchants had money to make money, they would care about you. If they bought it at a high price, they would be fools. Besides, Lu Ning and the others took unified actions when operating, and the bid was 20% or 30% higher than on the market. Local merchants had no way to communicate and had no time to understand the specific situation, so they could only sell them all in a hurry.
Youzhou is about to become Gongsun Zan, and Lu Ning cannot leave a large amount of supplies for him. Lu Ning also sent people to throw all the five coins recovered from Dai County and Shanggu into Youzhou, and bought all the supplies from Youzhou. At that time, Gongsun Zan just robbed an empty shell. Without food and large amounts of supplies, a large number of people would flee. In addition, Gongsun Zan did not have any internal affairs talents under him, so he just liked to fight and kill. In this way, Youzhou's economy would be over and he could force Gongsun Zan to come to cause trouble for Lu Ning. Lu Ning had an excuse and had the opportunity to deal with him.
Of course, the five trees are mainly Xuzhou, Jingzhou, Yizhou, Jiangnan, Huainan and other places. This is all due to the Zhen family and Mi family having a large number of shops and outlets. They keep purchasing supplies in the local area, constantly selling out old currencies, and collecting all the supplies. The materials and products in these places are also lacking, and the price level is also soaring. Because Lu Ning and others sold out five coins in large quantities, they also played a fuse, making the whole world shortage of supplies and prices soaring.
After the liquidation, Gu Yong said to Lu Ning: "My lord, we have made a lot of money this time. It has almost been a waste of taxes for a year, which has also improved our fiscal revenue. We have sufficient funds for our next various water conservancy projects and public welfare construction."
After hearing this, Lu Ning said: "These are all the gains that corrupt officials deprive the people of the people. Now we are just taking back what the people should belong to, and of course we also have to use the money on the people. Now that the finances are improving, in addition to the year of water conservancy projects and public welfare projects that Yuan Tan just mentioned, we must increase the construction of highways from Jinyang to counties and counties. This is also very important. It can facilitate people's walking and let the people bring the produced materials outside to sell, which is also conducive to improving our army's rapid response ability. Once there is danger there, our army can arrive in the shortest time."
Sima Lang said: "Brother, the investment in highways is very huge. Is it cost-effective to just throw money like this?"
Later generations said that to get rich, roads should be built first. Only when the transportation is good can the economy be developed and the things from remote areas can be transported for sale. Otherwise, no matter how much things are produced, it would be useless to transport them. "The investment in building highways is huge, but it has a huge impact on the production and life of the people. The investment entities are mainly government offices, and local people can also provide some volunteer work appropriately. This is also reasonable. After all, after the highway is opened, will the local people benefit? This kind of people will not care about it and are welcome. Of course, just building roads is not enough, and you have to maintain them. If the built roads are not managed and well maintained, it will be washed away by rainwater in a few years. In that case, our investment will be in vain, so the maintenance of highways is also a very important thing, and you must implement them." Lu Ning explained to everyone.
After hearing this, Gu Yong said, "Lord, if you want to manage and maintain the highway well, you must have a dedicated person to take charge. There must also be a group of road maintenance staff to inspect various sections of the road regularly and irregularly. If you find a problematic section, you must repair it immediately. This is also a lot of money."
After hearing this, Lu Ning said, "What should be paid is still to be paid. These aspects cannot be saved. If you have invested in such a large amount of investment, if you don't manage it, it does not mean that the early investment in highway investment will be useless. It's just that when building a highway, you must build a drainage ditch on the second side of the highway, so that the possibility of the road being washed away by rain will be much smaller. If there is no drainage ditch, the heavy rain will be over. For details, you have to use your brain and think of more ways. I'm just giving me some suggestions."
After hearing this, Ma Jun said: "If it is best to use it in conjunction with water trucks when building water conservancy projects, the irrigation area of the farmland will be wider and the irrigation quality will be greatly improved. This is very effective in increasing the yield of crops and will also bring more benefits to the people."
Gu Yong heard Ma Jun's words and said, "It's good that the money of the water truck is still listed as a special fund for water conservancy projects. Anyway, there is not much money, so let the government office make a calculation. The water truck is very important for agricultural production."
Lu Ning continued: "Our coal industry is developing rapidly. We can now build a stove that specializes in burning coal. The stove can be used for cooking and cooking, and can also be used for burning fire. This gradually guides and induces the people to use coal in production and life, and try to cut down trees as little as possible. Especially the deserts around us are close to each other. It is best to prohibit resettlement personnel from living and deforesting forests within one or two hundred kilometers near the desert, and they are not allowed to graz. They also need to plant more trees next to the desert regularly. One is the function of sand prevention, and in addition, through year-on-year governance, it is better to turn the desert into an oasis. Li builds our own homes better, not the environment is getting worse, which is troublesome, so the trees should be cut down as little as possible, and make it clear to the people so that the people can also know the importance of forests to our daily lives."
Zhang Yang said: "Lord, what kind of stove are you talking about?"
Chapter completed!