Rebirth Interstellar Peak View

Chapter 16 The So-Called Gentry Alliance
This time the driver was unsmiling.

People who have something in mind will feel very comfortable when they meet such a driver.

So when the car took Lei Yundong to Fenggang City, Lei Yundong generously gave 1 yellow coin as the fare.

Only in this way did the driver say dryly: "Thank you."

It's dusk now, and it's also the rush hour for getting off work.

When the flying car entered the city, it attracted countless eyes.

Ordinary people don't have the money to rent flying cars these days, let alone own them.

But some advertisements, film and television dramas, and speeding cars will naturally appear.

So everyone is just looking at it as a surprise, and won't lose their composure as if they found something shocking.

Lei Yundong also knew the mentality of these people, so he didn't give them a chance to watch.

The chosen destination was the biggest bank in Fenggang City. As soon as he left the speeding car, he entered the bank directly.

It is actually very simple to distinguish the institutions of Dahengchao.

For example, any institution with a modern name was formed by the Gentry Alliance.

And any institution with an old-fashioned name is either an official institution, or it is not established by an old-fashioned noble or old-fashioned gentry.

For example, Lei Yundong has never inquired about who is the owner of this Universal Bank in front of him.

But he has seen this bank all over the country, even in the capital.

So after discovering the existence of this bank on the smartphone map, Lei Yundong decided to come here without even thinking about it.

Lei Yundong was familiar with the way and saved 600 Dahengliang, and only kept about 10 of the rest with him, and exchanged all the others for local currency.

In fact, it is very loss-making to exchange Daheng Lianglai Bank for local currency.

The official price is a Daheng two for [-] local currency, but in fact, if you take it to a private exchange, you can exchange it for at least [-].

As for why not find a private exchange?

One won't work, and two could cause trouble.

Lei Yundong, who doesn't care about money, or thinks he won't be short of money in the near future, naturally doesn't bother to care about the price difference of these three hundred Daheng Liang.

With a mere turnover of less than [-] coins, Daheng Liang naturally won't get the special treatment from the Four Seas Bank.

The reason why people are able to receive guests even when the sky is getting dark is because the Four Seas Bank is open 24 hours a day.

So Lei Yundong subconsciously wanted to get a way to purchase machinery from the bank.

The clerk politely and indifferently said: "I'm sorry, I can't help you. Maybe you can go to an institution like a bank to inquire." After such a reason, he declined.

Lei Yundong took the two memory cards and left.

One is Dahengliang's memory card, as long as it is a commercial bank that has signed a commercial account with the Universal Bank, it can directly swipe the card for consumption.

Well, this thing is available all over the country, without geographical restrictions, as long as there is a commercial firm that has signed the contract, as long as there is a Universal Bank, it can be used.

As for the eligibility of commercial banks to swipe their cards, they must at least deposit more than [-] taels in the Universal Bank in the name of the commercial bank before they can sign the service.

In other words, the "Lei's Trading Firm" that Lei Yundong just registered does not have the qualifications.

One is the currency card of Fenggang City, which can be used by all banks and shops within the sphere of influence of Fenggang City.

That's right, even if it is the Universal Bank, as long as it is within the sphere of influence of Fenggang City, it can still swipe the card.

As for why it is divided into two cards?

Isn't it just that the local currency cannot be used in other regions, and it has to be exchanged through a special bank.

Maybe it will be said that it is not troublesome to come up with so many rules for the currency of a mere city?
Well, there will be such a misunderstanding, that is, it is not known how large the territory controlled by a gentry alliance is.

Let's put it this way, the land under the name of Lu's family is almost [-] square kilometers.

Among the gentry in Fenggang City's sphere of influence, the Lu family is only at the middle level, far from being the top.

But when the gentry alliance was first formed, the small and medium gentry were worried that the big gentry would mess up, and at the same time, the big gentry was also worried that in case their own family collapsed in the future, they would be beaten badly.

Therefore, at the beginning of its establishment, it was agreed in a contract that all gentry within the sphere of influence were naturally members of the management council.

And the powers of the members of parliament are the same, and any matter is voted on by one person, one vote.

The government naturally supports this kind of stability maintenance organization.

Maybe it was just acquiescing at the beginning, but the officials will retire, and when they return to their hometowns, they will directly become members of the local council and continue to have power.

This doesn't need to happen over time, it just needs officials to discover this benefit and directly and publicly recognize the parliamentary system of the gentry alliance.

It even reached the point where the emperor wanted to order the dissolution of these local councils.

Of course, the emperor and the court, because of their own attributes, were actually on the side of the gentry.

After all, the territory of the Daheng Dynasty is too vast, and governance is very difficult.

Since there is a county magistrate sent by the imperial court to control the planet, it is a matter of course that the large swaths of wilderness below are left to the gentry to develop and manage.

After all, it has been like this for thousands of years, and some minor turmoil can be resolved by the gentry themselves. What's so bad about saving worry and effort?

Therefore, because of the habit and inaction of the Daheng Dynasty, there are power organizations such as the Gentry Alliance and the local council under the government.

The topic diverged, and we returned to the issue of the gentry alliance being able to print its own currency.

Needless to say, there are other messy reasons. The main reason is that the territory of each gentry alliance is very, very vast.

For example, Fenggang Alliance takes Fenggang City, a city by the sea, as the center point.

It radiates a thousand kilometers to the land, which is more than half the area of ​​a circle.

That is to say, the sphere of influence of Fenggang City Gentry Alliance is about 150 million square kilometers.

It is normal for such a vast land, with a population of hundreds of millions, to have its own currency system.

And such an alliance of gentry, because of geographical issues and the factions behind the backing, every county of the Daheng Dynasty, that is, the administrative star, has at least ten or more.

These gentry alliances, regardless of the fact that there is a county above them, are all under the rule of the Daheng Dynasty.

But just like in ancient times, large-scale fighting could occur between villages due to water problems, resulting in heavy casualties.

Not to mention the gentry alliance, which covers an area of ​​one million square kilometers, has a population of hundreds of millions, and has incredibly rich interests.

There is no need to talk about dark methods such as sending spies, conspiracy, and fanning the flames.

It is true that the conflict of interest cannot be alleviated, and the two sides directly send troops to send aircraft and warships to directly fight from time to time.

It's really not blowing, the kind of aircraft that can only fly in the atmosphere, the kind of warship that can only wander in the waters, and what kind of machine guns, cannons and missiles are available in every league of gentlemen.

People who don't know how to do it will definitely be shocked. How can a gentry own an army?Or a modern army?Isn't this possible to rebel?
Just kidding, there are only 5000 county soldiers in charge of the county lieutenant, but with the strength of these 5000 people and their equipment, it is difficult to directly destroy the gentry alliance around the world, but it is easy to destroy a gentry alliance.

This is also the reason why Dahengchao didn't care about the development of the gentry below.

There are differences in technology generation and individual strength here, so we are not afraid of them making trouble.

(End of this chapter)