Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 458 Tainan Branch, Promotion of Frontier Area Tickets
The next morning.

Wang Ying is a very busy person now. As the head of the Tainan Special District Government, he holds great power and governs the eight counties in the special district.

This meant that Zhou Weihan had something important to discuss when he spoke, otherwise he would not be able to see anyone.

At around ten o'clock in the morning, Wang Ying and Hu Jingyun arrived at Yanwang Mountain.

"Old Zhou, what do you want me to do?" After Wang Ying finished speaking, she saw Hu Jingyun from the Economic Work Department, and she had a vague guess in her heart.

"I asked you to come here, there must be something important!" Then Zhou Weihan told the two people present what happened when he was eating sliced ​​noodles in Pingshun.

"The pilot work in Shexian County has been going on for three months. How is the progress? Taxation is the source of income for the base area. This is the top priority. Without taxation, how can we promote border area votes?" Zhou Weihan asked.

"Old Zhou, carrying out economic work in the base area is nothing compared to military operations. The territory we occupy is ours, and economic matters cannot be rushed!"

"During this time, the comrades in the county offices have been preparing for the determination of taxes, checking the population of each village, and the per capita annual income. These things are not easy to do!" Wang Ying complained first.

"Is there any progress on that?"

Taxation is a local job, Zhou Weihan should not take too much care of it even if he has the title of deputy director of the special area.

But now is the age of war, all resources are dumped on the army, how to feed the army without money and food?How can base areas develop normally without forming a normal economic system?

"People in Wuyi, Wu'an, and Shexian counties are very cooperative, and the inspection work has been completed. Licheng, Lucheng, Pingshun, Cixian, and Lin counties have just been occupied by our Eighth Route Army, and the inspection work is still a bit late!" Wang Wang Ying said.

After Zhou Weihan finished listening, he looked at Hu Jingyun, Minister of Economic Work.

I saw Hu Jingyun said: "At present, the taxation work in Shexian County is progressing well, especially the commercial tax. Only in Shexian County has issued [-] border area tickets, and ordinary people have used border area tickets normally in Shexian County."

"The Eighth Route Army is backed by the credibility of our Eighth Route Army. As long as the common people trust our Eighth Route Army, judging from the current situation, we can completely promote the use of border area votes in Wuyi, Wu'an, and She County!"

"Go ahead!" Zhou Weihan signaled.

"Our Tainan has experience to follow. In Yanzhou, border area tickets have been issued. 38 years ago, the border area tickets were linked to the legal currency. However, due to the sharp depreciation of the legal currency, in order to avoid the devaluation of the border area tickets, they were issued in Yanzhou area. It became an independent currency!"

"But if you want to become an independent currency, go back to what I said before. You must have credit. Take the National Government as an example. In 1935, the currency system reform was carried out. "

"Externally, the legal currency is linked to the British pound and the US dollar!"

"Before the Anti-Japanese War, the legal currency was very strong. One yuan of legal currency was equivalent to an ocean. On the one hand, the people recognized that the National Government was orthodox and could really exchange pounds and dollars at the foreign exchange exchange. On the other hand, to put it bluntly, the people still felt that Britain and the United States are strong, and their money will not depreciate!"

"But the situation we are facing in Tainan is even worse. The national government still has the support of the United Kingdom and the United States, and there are more land and people. At the same time, we have to face the financial pressure of the three parties of the country, Japan, and puppet. Most of the base areas are barren rural areas, but We also have an advantage, that is, most of the common people still trust us, but this kind of trust cannot withstand blows!"

"So on this basis, we need to have various types of reserves, one is gold and silver, the other is a large amount of goods, such as grain and products produced by various factories and supplies in short supply, and the third is temporarily able to trade with the Japanese yen, Legal currency and counterfeit currency are linked!"

"At the beginning of the issuance of border area bills, the demand in the base area market should not be exceeded. Stability is the main priority. Issuing currency is actually plundering the wealth of the people. If it is too hasty, the common people will easily feel dissatisfied!"

"Secondly, there must be foreign trade. We have an advantage in this regard. The progress of the goods store is very smooth. We can use other currencies to purchase materials from abroad, but if we want to buy our things, we must use border tickets!"

Hu Jingyun knew that Zhou Weihan and the others didn't know much about economic matters, so he tried to speak briefly, and Zhou Weihan barely understood.

"So, the most fundamental thing now is to let the people in the base areas subscribe for border tickets?" Zhou Weihan said.

"Yes, I will bring people to confirm the price comparison between the border ticket and other currencies as soon as possible, and then use the border ticket to exchange the currency in the hands of the people!" Hu Jingyun nodded and said.

"How difficult is it? Comrade Jing Yun, how many border area tickets are you going to issue in the three counties?" Wang Ying asked.

"The steps are smaller, one million per county?" Hu Jingyun asked in a tentative tone.

Zhou Weihan frowned when he heard that, it was too little. According to Li Daben's report, only the Wuyi Bai family's turnover in the goods store was more than a hundred thousand silver dollars every month.

"It's too little. I will increase the share of [-] million for the big households in Wuyi, Wu'an, and Shexian counties alone. I will leave this matter to Li Daben to handle it!"

"Declare to the common people that in the future, you can use border tickets to pay taxes!"

"At the same time, all the big players who want to buy goods from the goods store must use border ticket transactions, so the share of [-] million is easy to digest!"

"Large households in all counties must also use border area tickets to sell supplies to the local area!" Zhou Weihan said.

"This is a good way. If ordinary people want to obtain the necessities of life, they have to use border tickets. Although most ordinary people don't have much assets, they can't stand the big base!"

"The factories and self-operated stores in the base area can also adopt this method when selling in the base area!" Wang Ying slapped her hands beside her and said with a smile.

Zhou Weihan didn't expect that the merchants, which were only for buying and selling supplies at the beginning, have now become a powerful support for the promotion of border tickets.

Most of the urgent supplies and daily necessities needed by the people in the base areas were brought into the base areas by the dealers. In addition to the products produced by the factories, the Eighth Route Army had the lifeblood of the people in the base areas invisibly.

"Also, I'll write a note in a while. Let's go to Ding, the logistics department, to make a plan. He should be able to take out at least 500 large yellow croakers and a million oceans, and show them to the people in the base area. There are real guys here!" Zhou Weihan's shot was quite generous.

"Hey, the army is really rich, it's really rich!"

"Wang Ying, this is the money paid by the army collectively, and it will have to be paid back when the time comes, and don't say that the prefectural government has no money!" Zhou Weihan said to Wang Ying.

"Then don't worry, the troops have given their full support, and the prefectural government will definitely not hold back!" Wang Ying said, patting her chest.

"Jing Yun, I don't know much about economics, but since border tickets will be linked to legal currency and counterfeit currency in the future, we must be careful of their depreciation, and we must guard against the import of counterfeit currency. The gold and silver were stolen from the bank!" Zhou Weihan finally said.

The economic development of the base area has a long way to go. Zhou Weihan can deal with the war on the surface, but the financial war in the invisible can indeed be done by professional people.

Zhou Weihan could have predicted that once border area votes were circulated in the base area and surrounding areas, open and secret struggles would be inevitable.

(End of this chapter)