Open an aircraft carrier to fight against Japan

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "I always feel that it is very difficult to name weapons and equipment, because I always have a good name and a good name. It's hard to choose. You should choose it."

Han Mingguang smiled and said: "Well, I have an idea. In our era, our warships were all named after place names. In fact, I have always compared this way of naming warships. I think the names of warships also show the history of a country. And culture, a platform for promoting ideology, such as the United States, most of its aircraft carriers are named after previous presidents, such as the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier; its Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is also the same.”

"Even South Korea is the same in this regard. For example, the King Sejong-class guided missile destroyer equipped with the Aegis system is named after the king in North Korean history. The famous Confucianist Li Er, I think the names of our warships should also reflect Chinese culture."

Lin Yuan asked: "Do you also want to use ancient Chinese emperors as the name of the ship?"

Han Mingguang said with a smile: "Of course not. It is not necessary to have a name to embody Chinese culture. What I want is to use a mythical animal in ancient Chinese legends as the ship name. This can not only promote the traditional Chinese culture, but also sound more domineering and mighty."

Lin Yuan asked, "Divine beasts? Like green dragons, white tigers, red birds and basalt?"

Han Mingguang nodded and replied: "That's right, in the development of history, these mythical beasts have been endowed with a lot of symbolic meaning by people, such as Xiezhi, this kind of mythical beast is very similar to a unicorn, and it is said that it can distinguish right from wrong, and can recognize Good, evil, loyal and traitorous, if you find treacherous officials, you will eat them, so we use these mythical beasts as warship names, and we can also use their symbolic meaning to warn the world."

Lin Yuan said: "Your idea is really good, then we will call this type of destroyer the beast-class destroyer, but I don't know what the name of the first ship of this class is?"

Han Mingguang said: "I have also thought about it, let's call it Xiaofeng. According to legend, Xiaofeng is one of the nine sons of the dragon, who can eliminate disasters and evil. We use this kind of beast name as the ship name to warn those potential aggressors. Fans, if you want to attack us, you have to think carefully!"

Lin Yuan said: "Okay, let's call it Xiaofeng!" After Lin Yuan and Han Mingguang decided on the name of the warship, Lin Yuan thought about the bank, and he said to Han Mingguang, "We have a I didn’t have a background in economics, but what happened in Fuzhou touched me very much, we can no longer rely on merchants’ check numbers for remittances, we also need to have our own bank!”

Han Mingguang said: "This matter is very easy. Our chief of staff, Lei Yun, is still a Ph.D. in economics. Why don't we ask him?"

So Lin Yuan and Han Mingguang went to find the chief of staff. The chief of staff was very happy when he heard this, and said: "I also have the same idea. Finance is the blood of a country's economic development. I have been studying China in this era. In the financial industry, we found that there are many foreign banks in China, and these banks actually issue their own currency and extract the blood and sweat of the people. We also want to build our own bank and issue our own currency.”

Lin Yuan's eyes lit up, and he said, "We really want to go together. When our fleet is established, we will issue currency!"

Chief of Staff Lei Yun said: "I have already thought up the name of our bank, and it is called the Northeast People's Bank. When we drive the emperor out of the Forbidden City and the common people become the masters of China, we will add the word China to it. It’s called the People’s Bank of China.”

After discussing with several people, they started to make preparations, and soon the bank was established in the Northeast. Lin Yuan simply calculated that the silver in his hands, including gold and British pounds, were all converted into silver, about 4000 million taels. Part of the money was various bribes received, part of it was taxes from Yingkou Port and Northeast trade, and of course the largest amount was trade with foreigners in Shanghai, Hankou, Guangzhou and other places.

Since Lin Yuan sold the first batch of condoms to the British, various civilian commodities have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and then sold to foreigners at high prices, such as the textile industry, thanks to the advanced chemical industry, the fabrics produced in the Northeast Colors cannot be dyed by other countries. With Lin Yuan's dyeing, Chinese textile factories have made a lot of profits.

Lin Yuan also bought cotton cloth from foreign countries at a low price, and then transported them to the processing base in the Northeast, painted them, and then sold them to foreigners at ten times the purchase price. So they bought one after another. People in Europe are even proud of owning the fabrics produced in Northeast China. Of course, fabrics are only a small part of many civilian commodities. There are even some very inconspicuous things that have earned a lot of money, such as drying racks. .

This kind of thing is still made of iron in foreign countries, but because Western countries have launched huge shipbuilding plans, the price of steel has been rising all the way, so the cost of clothes hangers has also been rising, so Lin Yuan used plastic A large number of drying racks were produced and sold to foreigners.

The amount of 4000 million taels can kill all the bank accounts in seconds. In this era, the sum of all bank accounts is only more than 500 million taels, and the capital of the largest bank account is only 50 taels. The Northeast People's Bank It appeared in the Northeast financial market with such a giant attitude.

Sufficient capital means that depositors can be paid higher interest rates and merchants can be charged lower loan interest rates. Therefore, within a month after the establishment of the Northeast People’s Bank, the original Northeast Banks and Banks could no longer support it, and many bank accounts even appeared. The run of the tide.

"Running" is what the bankers are most afraid of. The basis of bank operations is that it is impossible for all depositors to withdraw money at the same time, so that they can borrow money and wait until the merchant returns the money. Due to the existence of interest, the money It will be more than the original one. Part of the extra money will become the profit of the bank, and part of it will be called the interest of depositors, so that the bank can continue to operate. A "run" means that all depositors withdraw money at the same time, and the bank simply cannot Not that much money pays everyone.

The reason for the run is that the depositors lost trust in the bank and thought it was unsafe to store the money in the bank, so they had to withdraw the money at the same time, which is usually the fuse of the economic crisis, but the run in the Northeast is different. The interest rate is very high, so everyone wants to take out the money and deposit it in the Northeast People's Bank, which is why the run happened.

Lin Yuan knew that those ticket numbers were run by his compatriots, and the people inside were also law-abiding businessmen, and he couldn’t bear to take away their jobs, so he invested money to buy the original ticket numbers. In this way, the financial market in Northeast China was unified by Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan was not in a hurry to set up branches in other cities, because there were many foreign banks in those big cities, and Lin Yuan did not want to challenge the financial hegemony of these countries in China before the fleet was built, but Lin Yuan did not wait It took too long, more than a month later, on January 1897, 1, he received a notice from the shipyard that the destroyer Laughing Wind had been built and was about to be launched.