Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 587 Wudaokou Financial Conference

Another effect of the visit to the church was to make him feel at ease - he had always suspected that Australians worshiped the devil and drew extraordinary power from the devil, but now seeing such a magnificent church, cross and priest, his doubts disappeared.I thought it was the extraordinary wisdom and strength bestowed by God.Finally, I was able to leave Lingao with peace of mind.

It was a peaceful and leisurely day. The Bairen Industrial Zone continued to spit out smoke of different colors, and a steady stream of waste water poured into the Wenlan River from the outlet of the treatment plant.The temperature is gradually rising, and the river water seems to be greener than in previous years.There was also a faint smell.The water in some diversion channels even stinks and has to be cleaned every day.

In a relatively remote neighborhood in Dongmen City—yes, Dongmen City has now formed a neighborhood instead of a street in the past.The side streets extending from Central Avenue were developed one by one along with the extension of the street.New neighborhoods have been formed, the land is surrounded by fences, and signs with strange characters are inserted. Some places have already started to build new houses, and some are still idle, allowing the people to grow vegetables.

At the intersection of Fifth Street, commonly known as Wudaokou, there is a newly completed tea house. The first floor is a place for selling tea, and the second and third floors are teahouses. This place is a newly established industry of the cooperative. It is a kind of public consumer goods, and the consumption in Lingao is getting bigger and bigger. Lingao does not produce tea locally, and all of them are imported from Fujian. The establishment of this tea house by the cooperative to sell tea not only adjusts people's livelihood, but also has the meaning of returning currency. .

The Executive Committee and the Standing Committee have agreed that private capital can be appropriately introduced in many non-critical industries.This tea house has capital invested by several customers of Tiandihui, accounting for 49% of the total capital—these customers are now guiding the cultivation of tea, a cash crop in hilly areas, to meet domestic demand.

The guest seats on the second and third floors are neatly furnished and have attracted many tea drinkers.As for the types of tea customers, most of them are small local landlords, businessmen who have recently made a fortune, and indigenous employees from various departments that are increasingly expanding.

The most frequented customers of Wudaokou tea house are veterans from the financial system.This place is very close to the newly opened head office of Delong Bank.Many people often come here to chat and rest.Gradually, this place has replaced the cold, square, simple and compact lounge in the former Finance and Finance Committee compound in Bairen City.

After the tea is imported from Fujian, it is simply sorted, reprocessed and packaged by the tea factory of the Ministry of Light Industry. Most of the famous Fujian teas in this time and space can be seen here.The most popular is oolong tea, which had already appeared at that time.

This is a small microcosm of the intersection between the industrious, simple and pioneering merchants of the Celestial Dynasty and the new forces in Lingao.Fujian tea, Lingao-style packaging and service, cooperation between indigenous businessmen and monopoly state-owned enterprises.It works naturally and smoothly.After the opening of Wudaokou Tea House, it gradually became a gathering place for the veterans of the financial department. Even the upstart aborigines who came here to drink tea knew that the third floor was not the place for them to go.

The spare time life of veterans is generally not very interesting, but people in the financial department are faced with reports and figures every day-in order to adapt to the future financial system that does not use computers, various departments under the Chief Financial Officer Department are implementing "manualization of accounting" , This behavior of starting to reverse the car is to avoid that one day without a computer, everyone will not even have the ability to make report summaries.The current computer system is only used for some more complex calculations.

The days of reading reports, planning abacus, hand-operated computers, and moving slide rules made everyone complain. Not to mention that everyone was assigned an apprentice. The apprentices were not so much helpful as they increased the workload. The burden is heavier.

The more boring it is, the more emphasis is placed on leisure and relaxation, and the more this place becomes a must-visit place for many people every day, not only for chatting, but sometimes for work meetings.

After a long gathering, the veterans of the financial department gradually formed several small groups here.There are mainly "Accounting Department", "Banking Department" and "Financial and Taxation Department".These small factions were loosely united to form a faction later called "Wudaokou" in the Senate.This system does not have the same scale as the law club, nor is it more thoughtful and organized than those with legal backgrounds, and there is no ambitious horse academy to lead everything here-there are many small factions within the group, and each other has their own financial, economic and financial issues. Ideas despise each other, and no one buys and no one wins.Therefore, in the second conference, the financial group failed to usurp a bigger power cake.Naturally, there is no such great achievement as the Law Club.

In the rudimentary coal-iron joint venture, finance, or the financial department under the current system, is an indispensable but not the most important department.So everyone is well aware of the possibility of gaining greater power.

"We are a service unit." The Finance Department has a unified mind on this issue.

The financial and taxation system has just undergone a comprehensive restructuring after the second general meeting recently.The original Financial and Financial Committee was split and adjusted into multiple departments. The new system finally had a formal Ministry of Finance, and the four-faced auditing department Cheka finally gained a formal status; the tax department, which had no clear status until now, was also established. Now, in addition to officially taking over the County Grain Collection Bureau, a compromise product under the old Ming system, the Xinde Taxation Bureau is also being established.

The original Delong Grain Bank was divided into two departments, one of which maintained the old name - Delong Grain Bank, and continued to undertake the business of grain purchase, storage and sales.Delong's original currency issuance and financial business were spun off to become a Delong Bank, which is temporarily playing the role of a central bank, a professional bank and a commercial bank.

Cheng Dong, the new chief financial officer, never came to Wudaokou, but he supported his subordinates to discuss professional issues here.The tea house is an informal occasion, and the conversation is relatively relaxed, not as formal as discussing issues in a formal meeting, and many things can be said on the table.So this place has gradually become an important place for business departments to discuss and formulate policies.

The third floor is full of elegant rooms, with thin bamboo curtains hanging on the door, and some green plants dotted.Some private rooms are so small that they can only accommodate four or five people chatting, and some are large enough for more than [-] people to gather for a meeting.There is an aboriginal attendant guarding the stairway to prevent any aboriginal who doesn't know the situation from breaking into the third floor.The second is to look after the thermos and tea.

Now it is working hours, most of the private rooms are empty, only one is full of friends, seven or eight people are sitting around a round table, joking with each other.The communication is mainly about the business issues of the system, and then the maid benefits that seem to be coming soon.There are some "you know" laughter from time to time.

There are hot tea and plates of fruit on the table, the skylight on the roof is open, and the smoke from several cigarettes and cigars slowly rises upwards. This scene of green smoke makes the aborigines give them a "fairy meeting" "The nickname.

"I heard that the quality after the maid's training is very good, it's much better than when it just came ashore." Yifan, the head of the Cheka, felt a little unsatisfied, and he couldn't help but feel a little unrestrained, "I really want to go back and train it myself as soon as possible. "

Cheka has been established for several months, and it has not caught a "big fish". Yifan is very disappointed. The progress of his audit work is like a tortoise, because there is no suitable person.Do everything from scratch.And there are a lot of people robbing you of resources.It is said that the minimum accounting training class for auditing was started on a large scale under his vigorous advocacy. As a result, most of the trained accountants were retained by various departments, and the executive committee seemed to suddenly wake up—— For some enterprises to keep accounts and improve the financial system, they must have accountants.

So in the end, Yifan only got less than ten people. In addition, he personally brought apprentices and civilian staff who did not need to understand accounting and auditing. It was barely enough for a football team.

Just a dozen or so people, learning by doing.Yifan spent more than ten times more energy than himself—these fledgling auditors were full of mistakes, and he had to personally review every piece of information.As a result, the accounts of the enterprises under Wu Nanhai's Agricultural Committee have not yet been clarified.His famous saying of "dragging the senators out and shooting them" became a laughing stock.

Ji An ate the mango: "It looks so good that we have to bid for it. This is to squeeze out our wealth."

"I have nothing at all." Wu Di flicked the cigarette ash, and a whole ash flew out beautifully, and fell into a glass full of cigarette butts. Quite handsome, quite eye-catching in the crowd.

"What are the native maids? They don't look very good, and they are short," Wu Di expressed contempt. "Don't talk about looks, they have nothing in common with modern people. I'm not interested at all."

"Then why do you still receive maid welfare money?"

"Everyone has it, why I don't," Wu Di said indifferently, "Besides, it's not bad to buy one and go back to do housework. This kind of life secretary is only enough to do this."

Travelers seldom bring wives or girlfriends.Only this Wu Di not only brought a young and beautiful wife, but also abducted his sister-in-law.This guy made no secret of the ambiguous relationship between himself and his sister-in-law, and sometimes the three of them went in and out together, which attracted everyone's attention.In private, Du Wen has repeatedly regarded his wife and sister-in-law as models of "voluntarily put on the shackles of patriarchy and become subordinate to men".

"You are really a typical full man who doesn't know that a hungry man is hungry—" Yi Fan wanted to check his account every time he saw him, to see if he could be taken out and shot, lest he alone occupy too much resources.However, Wu Di's current credit department of Delong Bank has not done a few transactions so far.This idea had to be dismissed.

"Cough." Jin Zhijiao coughed at the side. As the only woman among the audience, she was not used to such a topic, and she was also a little uneasy-wouldn't Lao Hu want to have a concubine?
Yifan noticed her reaction, and hurriedly stopped talking about this issue, but diverted to other topics.It's not that he respects women, it's because Jin Zhijiao is now one of his generals, and she must win over her well.

Jin Zhijiao is the wife of Hu Muye, an engineer in Lingao Telecom. She graduated in accounting and is very good at statistics.Now the second in command of the Chikary.

"Is there any new policy recently?" Yifan asked casually, flicking his cigarette ash.

Chen Ce, director of the planning department of Delong Bank, took a look at him and dropped the cigarette card.

"Are you really ignorant or are you pretending to be ignorant? The General Office of the Executive Committee issued a document regarding the reform of the monetary system, asking us to add a detailed plan based on the previous report."

"Just the draft for comments?" Yi Fan said, "Isn't it the report you typed last time?"

Chen Ce made a report to the first executive committee a few months ago, which was about the reform of the financial system.In this report, in addition to calling for the reform of the financial committee system and the separation of finance and finance, the issue of currency reform was also raised.

"That's right, it's basically the framework I mentioned. But it can be seen that the executive committee has no idea how to change the currency system, and it's very vacillating."

"It's not bad. At least the current reform of the financial system has a great relationship with your report. Delong's family is separated—you said, is the ultimate goal of your report is to separate Delong's family?"

When Delong was in the grain bank era, the people who held the power were mainly people from the planning committee system, and the financial and accounting personnel were basically the people who worked below.

After the separation, the food bank business was spun off, and the banking system was established. The group of people who used to eat financial affairs immediately trembled.A group of people mixed into middle-level positions.

"Hehe, you can't say that, is this the trend of the times!" Chen Ce remained calm, "It's ridiculous for the grain bank to do finance, and the name is not right. Can you imagine the Ministry of Grain of the People's Republic of China issuing banknotes?"

The so-called base money is the central bank's liabilities.The central bank buys Treasury bonds to issue currency.Therefore, the first step in the financial reform proposed by Chen Ce is to turn Delong Grain Bank into Delong Bank.This step has now been achieved.That's why he proposed currency reform.

"Hasn't the Ministry of Food of the People's Republic of China issued food stamps for many years? But we are more thorough and directly combine two into one." Yifan commented.

"You are also a student of finance and economics. You must be the most aware of the problems of our so-called negotiable notes."

"That's right, that's why I agreed with you when you suggested that Cheng Dong use grain as the standard." Yi Fan said.Fully convertible paper money using rice as the general equivalent was feasible in the early days.In an underdeveloped area like Lingao, only rice can provide sufficient and reputable credit guarantees, and through foreign trade, it is relatively easy to stabilize the price of rice, that is, the currency value within an acceptable fluctuation range.

"The biggest problem with grain circulation vouchers is that they are actually a kind of grain bank exchange vouchers. The restrictions are too rigid. Other assets must be converted into rice before they can be converted into currency. This has not matched the current social and economic development. Yes." Yifan concluded, "However, the key to being able to pass at the beginning was that you voted for Duke Ma, an 'industrialist' fanatic." Yifan laughed, "I have a feeling that the Duke is essentially Little understanding of money in the world, but he has a fierce hostility to finance. And a desire to completely manipulate the financial system”

"The Dugong is a fanatic of planned economy." Wu Di lit a new cigarette and said, "He also came up with a plan for a new currency system."

"Oh, that's what I want to see. I didn't know that Governor Ma was also interested in finance."

"It's very long," Wu Di said, "I can summarize his thinking for you."

"All ears."

"Ma Dugong's currency system is simply to control the world's currency issuance rights by controlling trade channels," Wu Di said. "His theory is that as long as he monopolizes the logistics industry, he can monopolize the definition of currency. The pound and the dollar have successively been able to It became an international currency because it monopolized the circulation of goods.”

As he spoke, he took out a notebook from his pocket: "I'll read you a passage of his original text——

…There are two prerequisites for buying something, A is sold by someone, and B has a channel to buy it.With farmers alone, you cannot buy rice, and with factories alone, you cannot buy clothes.Currency must be used, and the logistics industry will change hands from it.Therefore, monopolizing the logistics industry can monopolize the definition of currency.The British pound and the US dollar have successively become international currencies in modern times. The most critical point is that these two countries have mastered the sea power.There are two meanings of mastering sea power. One is that you have a monopoly merchant fleet, and others cannot compete with you.So all bulk trade is done by you, and you naturally have the right to choose how to price it.The other is that you have the world's largest navy, and you can stop the trade of any route at any time without incurring retaliation.This is the case in the United States and the United Kingdom.The United States doesn’t care who exploits the oil in the Middle East or manufactures half the world’s industrial products—as long as these things are priced in dollars...”
"Of course, if this can be achieved, it will be beneficial in the short term. Just look at the United States in old times and space." Chen Ce said, "He has the same calculation as the Americans, relying on the credit of the international currency to borrow unlimitedly. .Most of the super-issued currency is circulating in the world market,"

"In this plan, he has a four-step plan," Wu Di said. "In the first stage, let this new currency-let's call it the Australian dollar-can buy our supplies. Now that there are circulation coupons, we can directly Replacement of circulation certificates; in the second stage, we require that Australian dollars can be used to buy other people’s materials and exchange them with gold and silver; in the third stage, we require that gold and silver must be priced in Australian dollars; in the fourth stage, we require that everything be priced in cross currency.”

"The governor is omnipotent in planning and a materialist. To him, finance is essentially heresy." Chen CE said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)