General Skerry, as the general manager of logistics affairs in the theater, is very interested in preparing to open a bank of his own in the theater. The shortage of military expenditures and development funds in the war zone put him under heavy pressure. His hair turned one-third gray because of this, and he looked gloomy all day long, wondering where to get money or how to save more.
With a bank controlled by the war zone itself, the pressure on funds will be greatly reduced, so General Skerry and Viscount Goodich hit it off immediately and had a very speculative conversation, leaving Claude aside in the cold. Especially after Viscount Gooditch put forward his suggestion of changing all copper coins into cash rolls, General Scree was even more appreciative.
In the financial and monetary system of the Kingdom of Overas, the smallest unit of black iron coins is the penny, one penny is one cent, followed by the bronze coin pfennig, one pfennig is equal to one dime, and ten pfennig is one red copper coin. Sunar, one sunar is like one dollar. Ten sunars is a small silver coin, a riyaso, which is equal to ten yuan. Ten sunars is a large silver coin, a silver thaler. One silver thaler is equivalent to a hundred yuan. There is also a silver thaler above it. There are gold crowns, and five silver thalers are one gold crown. The value of one gold crown is equivalent to a five hundred dollar bill.
It has been nearly 80 years since Stirling IX established this metal currency system. Due to the economic development of the kingdom during the reign of Stirling X, black iron pennies basically disappeared among the people. The smallest unit is mainly the bronze coin pfennig. For example, a boiled apple the size of a fist is sold for three pfennigs, which is three cents, and a teapot of fresh milk is sold for one sunar, which is equivalent to one yuan...
However, the fact that black iron coins are not used by the public does not mean that black iron coins do not exist. The foundry in the royal capital must cast a batch every year and hand it over to the National Bank. The National Bank also dislikes the fatigue. Although this thing is small, it is very heavy and can be carried in the pocket. Somewhat falling. After five years of war in the eastern region, the kingdom's economy has been slow to recover, and black iron coins are making a comeback among the people. After all, when civilians in towns and villages buy needles, thread, brains, etc., their transactions are between the smallest currency units. Sometimes they think that one pfennig is too big, and they hope to have currency units with five black iron pennies denominations.
The Amphiston Direct Territory is the largest mineral resource development territory among the eight overseas direct jurisdictions. The Mining and Business Association, which controls the development of mineral resources in the direct jurisdiction, secretly smuggled several scraps of gold, silver and copper coins from the Kingdom, and prepared to use them in the Kingdom. Overseas territories directly minted gold, silver and copper coins to relieve the cash shortage of overseas territories. At the same time, it can also bring an annual income of 500,000 gold crowns to the war zone, alleviating the tight investment in military expenditures and development and construction of directly-governed territories.
But the problem is that when it comes to privately casting gold, silver and copper coins, in terms of income, casting gold crowns and silver thalers is the most cost-effective and the most profitable. The profit from the small silver coin riaso is very small, only about 20%. However, the people in overseas direct-administered territories have the most demand for sunar and fenni below the riaso. The Mining and Commerce Association has not been able to obtain sunar. Only pfennig can be made out of the scraps of errands and pennies. As a result, the final calculation showed that casting Fenney was almost a rebate, and the cost of labor and materials spent on it had exceeded the value of Fenney itself. To be honest, the more Finney is minted, the greater the loss.
The Mining and Commerce Association does not want to mint penny, but the basic monetary units for private transactions are penny, sunar and riaso. Although there are transactions in silver thalers and gold crowns, they are rare. In the past, it was used to facilitate the settlement of cross-oceanic trade between the two continents. Nowadays, a civil war broke out between the two kings in the kingdom, and the ocean trade routes were cut off. Even if the mining and commercial associations minted countless gold crowns and silver thalers, they could not send them. Useful.
Now the Mining and Commerce Association is using Riazor's profits to subsidize the losses of Casting Finney, and they all laugh at themselves by saying that they have become an excellent foundry agent of the National Bank. They were lucky that they didn't get a scrap version of Sunal, otherwise they would have caused more trouble for themselves and would have done some business that was just for nothing but made no money.
Therefore, Viscount Goodich’s suggestion just solves the urgent problem of the lack of copper coins in the war zone. Replacing copper coins with banknotes of the same denomination will not only free the mining and commercial associations from the loss-making state of copper coin Finney, but also eliminate the need to cast copper coins. Small silver riazos with small profits. Metal currencies below the silver thaler can be completely replaced by banknotes.
Residents of the Kingdom of Overas actually have the habit of saving money privately. They can collect a silver thaler of banknotes and exchange them home from banks opened in war zones, so that the banknotes can be circulated in overseas territories. After all, carrying banknotes is lighter than those copper coins. Sometimes a large bag of copper coins is only worth one or two silver thalers. It is indeed a burden and cumbersome to carry it around.
General Skerry and Viscount Goodich became more and more excited as they talked. In the end, General Skerry simply canceled his scheduled trip in the afternoon and took Viscount Goodich back to the office to discuss the plan to open a war zone bank. Claude Left alone in the restaurant.
But Claude was too lazy to make do with it, he had his own schedule in the afternoon. After eating and resting for a while, they set off in a carriage with the guards.
Corpicus Port is the capital of the Tiersim Direct Territory and is divided into an inner city and an outer city. The people living in the inner city are all dignitaries and wealthy families from the direct jurisdiction. The east and south districts of the outer city are populated by Kingdom residents with poor family backgrounds and Kingdom poor who have migrated here and have no personal property. As for the West and North Districts, they are the territory of the Nikancha people who make a living in the Port of Kaupicius, and are large tracts of low-rise shantytowns.
In the administrative department of the Port of Corbichus, there are 70,000 to 80,000 registered residents of the Kingdom living in the Port of Corbichus. But there are more than 300,000 Nikancha people in the West and North Districts. They do the hardest and most tiring work in the Port of Kaupicius. Just like in the inner city, all the cleaning and sanitation work is done by Nikancha. People are doing it, and it is customary for wealthy residents of the kingdom to hire one or two Nikancha maids to do housework. In the dock area, all the porters are young and strong Nikancha people.
After the interruption of the ocean trade routes between the kingdom's mainland and overseas territories, the young Nikancha people in Kaubicius Port became the largest unstable group. They lost the biggest opportunity to make money by selling their labor at the dock and could only wander around. ,stir up trouble. If the port of Kaubicius was not under military control, perhaps those Nikancha people would have caused many more riots.
General Skerry told Claude worriedly that one of the biggest problems faced by the three direct jurisdictions of Tilsim, Mormali, and Arturas was the treatment of the Nikancha people.
The Kingdom currently has eight overseas territories directly under its jurisdiction. The Vibato Port Direct Territory was formerly a colony of the Kingdom of Hicks. The Hicks captured the Nikancha people as slaves, so much so that the Nikancha people launched a war with the support of the war zone. The armed rebellion occupied the coastal mountainous area north of Vibato Port and established the country of the Nikancha people. Therefore, there are no Nikancha settlements in the direct jurisdiction of Vibato Port, and the occasional Nikancha people are just If you think of picking up some rubbish or stealing something from the direct jurisdiction of Vibato Port, you will soon be driven out by the patrol team.
Because of the colonial war with the Kingdom of Hicks, the three direct territories of Cromwell, Beringana, and Robestoe first adopted the strategy of clearing the country. The massacres at the Nikancha settlements in Ghana's two territories forced the Nikanchas to flee the two territories.
As for the Robisto Direct Territory, because it was related to the defense line of the Dolinibara River and the Claude Defense Line in the Mosilaga Mountains on the border of the Amphiston Direct Territory, even the Nikancha people had to adopt the strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the field. Being deported was mainly due to the confidentiality issue of the two lines of defense. Therefore, there are no Nikancha settlements in the three direct territories of Cromwell, Beringana and Robistoe. It can be said that they are a blank slate.
After capturing the port of Vibato, the colonial war can be said to have come to an end. Immediately after the war zone, the two direct jurisdictions of Cromwell and Beringana took in more than two million immigrants from the relatives of the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion. It can be said that these two direct jurisdictions have completely become kingdoms. There is no place for Nikancha people in the residents’ territory anymore. Because the immigrants from the kingdom who moved to these two direct territories were relatively poor, they liked to work by themselves and did not have the habit of hiring foreigners.
The demesne of Robistoe became the resettlement territory for the residents of the former kingdom of Cromwell, Beringana and Robistoe. In addition to the nearly 300,000 kingdom residents who migrated to overseas territories following the legion officers and soldiers' relatives, it also became a territory dominated by kingdom residents. During the resettlement process, the war zone refused to enter the Nikancha settlement. Without the guarantee of the original residents of the kingdom, the Nikancha servants in the homes of those kingdom residents would not be able to enter the Robisto territory.
All of these are regulations formulated by the war zone to control the Nikancha people with the assistance of the Mining and Commercial Association. It is well known that the Nikancha people have bad habits. If it were not for the management experience of big stick and carrot, the Mining and Business Association would not have so many young Nikancha miners.
Among all the overseas territories, the Nikancha people in the Amphiston territory are the most disciplined and law-abiding. This is mainly due to the years of teaching and generosity of the Mining and Commerce Association. The young Nikancha people who work as miners in the Amphiston Territory are the ones with the best pay and the most money. In fact, they are no different from the Kingdom residents who work as miners, except that they are missing a share of the welfare subsidies of the Kingdom residents. But seeing that the miners in the kingdom did the same work and earned the same money as them, the young Nikancha miners were satisfied.
The Nikancha people in the two direct jurisdictions of Robisto and Amphiston under the jurisdiction of the war zone are relatively well-behaved. They don't have those messy problems and will not break out in rebellion. In fact, as long as they are treated with fairness and justice, the Nikancha people are not as bad as some residents of the kingdom think.
But the Nikancha people in the three direct territories of Mormali, Tiersim and Arturas are the real weirdos. All the bad habits of the Nikancha people can be found in them. The Nikancha people in these three jurisdictions are the most hopeless race. All bad adjectives can be applied to them. They often launch inexplicable riots in these three jurisdictions and are suppressed to death. Dozens of people, and then be honest for a while. After a while, they started rioting again, and then they were suppressed again. They continued to be honest for a while. I really don’t understand why they did this...
Of course, all this is due to the indifferent management attitude implemented by the governors and admirals of the three direct territories towards these Nikancha people. In addition to collecting a head tax from these Nikancha people every year, the local officials of the three direct jurisdictions basically regarded these Nikancha people as the lowest servants or objects of exploitation, and dispatched local defense forces from time to time. Sweep those Nikancha settlements and search for money.
Secondly, the residents of these three kingdoms directly under the jurisdiction also have racial discrimination in their contacts with the Nikancha people. They look down on the Nikancha people and habitually bully the Nikancha people. When it comes to the execution of labor employment agreements with the Nikancha people, it is often the residents of the kingdom who break their promises first. This caused the Nikancha people in the three directly administered territories to hate the residents of the kingdom very much. This was actually the reason why Nikancha people riots often broke out in the three directly administered territories.
The problem is that the total number of kingdom residents in the three direct territories is only more than one million, while the Nikancha people exceed three million. Claude believed that if it weren't for the advanced firearms and equipment in the hands of the local garrison forces of the three directly governed territories and the residents of the kingdom, which frightened the Nikancha people, maybe these three directly governed territories would have already fought with Vibato of the Hicks Kingdom. Like Hong Kong Colonial County, the Nikancha people rebelled and established an independent country...
Now that the three direct territories of Mormali, Tilsim, and Arturas have been brought under the jurisdiction of the war zone, the more than three million Nikancha people in the three territories have become the first governance problem. In particular, the cross-ocean trade that was cut off from the kingdom's mainland had a great impact on the Nikancha people. Their young and strong labor force cannot sell their labor in the dock area. The romantic land of the Nikancha people does not have the patronage and consumption of sailors of the ocean-going fleet, and the children of the Nikancha people cannot get tips from the merchants of the ocean-going fleet. Or begging for money, which makes the atmosphere in the Nikancha shantytowns in the western and northern areas of Kaubicius Port very depressing.
General Skerry was originally planning to repeat his old tricks and organize the young Nikancha people to repair the basic transportation roads and public facilities in the three directly-administered territories, so that these Nikancha people could sell their labor to obtain food and clothing for themselves and their families. But before ten and a half days passed, General Skerry found himself facing an embarrassing dilemma. It was a huge mistake to place his hopes on these Nikancha people.
Let's put it this way, in the two direct territories of Cromwell and Beringana, those immigrants from the kingdom were organized to build roads. How could a thousand people and ten days complete the construction of a ten-mile road foundation. But here, a thousand Nikancha people were young and strong. After working for ten days, the road was barely able to lay two miles of foundation, which was still very unqualified. Most of the people were hanging around on the construction site, and they all had big bellies when they ate. The food they transported there was even smuggled out, which was three or four times more than what a thousand people would normally consume...
What made General Skerry even more unexpected was that these Nikancha people started to hold protests and strikes within a few days of working because they demanded wages. General Skerry also wanted to use vouchers to appease these Nikancha people, but these Nikancha people did not give up. They don't need these vouchers that can be exchanged for daily necessities. What they want is cash. They want to use cash to buy wine and play with women...
General Skerry had no choice but to give up on saving these Nikancha people. He asked Claude to find a way to deal with the Nikancha people in these three jurisdictions. Of course, he did not let Claude command the troops to attack these Nikancha people. A massacre or something, but at least these cancers in the direct territories must be sent away, so as not to stay in the direct territories and embarrass the war zone.
After sending them out, Claude thought of the Nikancha country in the coastal mountainous area in the northern part of the Vibato Port Territory, and planned to send all the Nikancha people from these three territories there, which could be regarded as diverting trouble to the east. As for what will happen to these Nikancha people when they arrive in their own country, it has nothing to do with Claude and the war zone. They themselves will be responsible for the huge disaster they cause.
But what Claude is facing now is, is the Nikancha country over there willing to accept their own compatriots? This is the first question. The second question is, are the Nikancha settlements in the three direct jurisdictions here willing to move to which Nikancha country? The Nikancha settlements here have their own elders and leaders. They are probably unwilling to move for the sake of power. , in the end Claude may have to use force to help them...